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PUBWSHED  AT   "LEAVES  OF  HEAI^ING  "   OFFICE, 

320  Sansome  Street, 

SAN  FRANCISCO. 

1889. 


INTRODUCTION. 

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With  joyous  songs  and  grateful  hearts,  the  people  of  God  in  ancient  days 
obeyed  His  command,  "Thou  shalt  not  delay  to  offer  the  first  of  thy  ripe  fruits, 
.  .  .  the  FIRST-FRUITS  of  thy  labors  which  thou  hast  sown  in  the  field."  (Ex- 
odus 21  :  29 ;  23 :  16. )  We,  therefore,  giving  all  the  praise  to  our  God  and'- 
Father,  who  has,  by  the  Holy  Spirit,  so  gloriously  blessed  our  first  eight  months 
work  for  His  dear  Son  in  this  land,  send  forth  these  *'  First-Fruits  "  of  our  labors 
in  America  in  the  cause  of  Christ  our  Lord,  especially  in  the  ministry  of  Divine 
Healing.  We  do  this  on  the  eve  of  going  forth  again  for  a  second  and  longer 
period  of  service  to  our  Lord  on  this  Pacific  Coast. 

We  begin,  on  Lord's  Day,  April  28th,  a  mission  in  the  city  of  Los  Angeles, 
Southern  California,  and,  God  willing,  we  shall  visit  other  cities  in  that  portion 
of  this  State,  and  proceed' from  thence  to  Oregon,  Washington  and  British  Colum- 
bia, where  we  intend  to  conduct  missions  until  the  Fall,  in  which  labors  we  ask 
the  prayers  and  sympathies  of  all  our  Christian  readers. 

The  following  pages  are,  for  the  most  part,  simply  extracts  from  our  short- 
hand writer's  reports  of  the  words  of  testimony  uttered  by  those  who  have  been 
healed  through  faith  in  Jesus,  as  given  by  themselves  before  a  multitude  of  wit- 
nesses in  the  Praise  and  Testimony  Meetings  which  have  been  held  at  the  close 
of  each  of  our  missions,  ten  of  which  have  been  conducted  by  us  in  this  State. 
Concerning  the  genuineness  of  these  statements  there  can  be  no  righteous  dispute, 
but  we  deeply  regret  (although  we  cannot  be  surprised)  that  we  have  been  under 
the  necessity  of  defending  the  truthfulness  of  these  witnesses  against  the  false 
and  maliciouai  attacks,  not  of  the  world,  but  of  some  who  profess  to  be  ministers 
within  the  Church  of  God.  **No  strange  thing  has  happened  to  us"  in  our  be- 
ing compelled  to  discharge  this  painful  duty,  but  it  is  hone  the  less  to  be  regretted, 
although  we  trust  such  conduct  will  never  be  repeated.  One  'good  result  is  that 
it  has  given  us  an  opportunity,  and  laid  upon  us  the  necessity,  of  again  and  again 
bringing  forward  these  witnesses,  who,  before  hundreds  and  even  thousands  of  per- 
sons, have  reaffirmed  their  testimony  without  challenge.  In  this  matter,  re- 
membering the  words  of  the  great  apostle,  we  say  to  our  Christian  friends,  "Pray 
for  us,  that  the  word  of  the  Lord  may  have  free  course  and  be  glorified,  and  that 
we  may  be  delivered  from  unreasonable  [margin,  Gr.  "absurd  "]  and  wicked  men, 
for  all  men  have  not  faith. "    2  Thessalonians  3  : 2. 

In  only  two,  or  possibly  three,  cases  do  we  know  of  any  of  the  witnesses 
whose  testimonies  arc  herein  reported  having  gone  back  to  former  conditions,  and 
the  cause  of  their  declension  in  every  case  is  to  be  found  in  a  return  to  sin,  largely 
through  evil  and  ungodly  surroundings  which  the  persons  concerned  have  yielded 
to  instead  of  overcoming  through  the  grace  of  God  In  this  connection,  we  de- 
sire to  remind  all  who  read,  that  what  is  received  through  faith  in  Jesus  may  be 
lost  through  unbelief  and  other  sins.  Our  Lord's  warning  in  John  5  :  14  suffi- 
ciently proves  this  assertion.  He  said  to  one  whom  he  had  healed,  "  Behold, 
thou  art  made  whole.     Sin  no  more,  lest  a  worse  thing  come  unto  thee. " 

We  have  added  to  this  new  and  enlarged  edition  of  *  *  First-Fruits  "  two  ad- 
dresses which  we  delivered  before  the  Congregational  Ministers'  Club  of  San 
Francisco.  These  contain  brief,  and  necessarily  incomplete,  outlines  of  our  doc- 
trinal teaching,  which  forms  by  far  the  /greatest  portion  of  our  ministry;  but  we 
think  it  well  to  add  these  pages,  since  there  is  a  widespread  desire  that  we 
should  publish  our  teaching.  We  reserve,  however,  the  full  publication  of 
that  in  book  form  until  we  have  opportunity  to  write  our  intended  work  on  the 
whole  subject,  which  we  trust  will  be  during  next  Fall  and  Winter.  Mean- 
while, we  shall  publish  articles  on  various  aspects  of  Divine  Healing  truth  in  our 
monthly  magazine.  Our  constant  experience  is  that  Teaching  is  of  the  first  im- 
portance; Our  Lord's  example  in  His  earthly  ministry,  as  shown  in  Matt, 
4  :  23  and  9  :  35,  makes  this  clear.  There  we  see  that  Jesus  went  about,  firstly 
Teaching,  secondarily  Preaching,  and  thirdly  Healing,  and,  so  far  as  He  enables 
us,  we  follow  in  his  footsteps.  The  greater  part  of  our  work  is  Teaching.  Preach- 
ing is  simply  the  proclamation  of  the  results  of  the  Teaching,  and  the  Healing 
always  follows  where  the  truth  is  fully  received. 


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We  have  been  led  to  establish  in  this  country  our  little  magazine  entitled 
"Leaves  of  Healing,"  which  we  established  last  June  in  New  Zealand  on  our 
way  to  this  country.  We  have  transplanted  it  to  this  coast,  and  the  first  num- 
ber of  the  new  issue  will  iSe  ready  early  next  month,  God  willing. 

In  connection  with  this  matter,  we  have  established  an  office  at  320  Sansome 
Street,  San  Francisco,  where  subscriptions  will  be  received  ($l.oo  per  annum)  for 
this  monthly  magazine,  and  where  copies  of  various  pamphlets  which  we  have 
written  on  this  subject  can  be  obtained.  "We  are  asking  our  Lord  to  enable  us  to 
print  with  our  own  press,  as  soon  as  possible,  our  various  publications,  and  we  trust 
soon  to  be  in  a  position  to  supply  tracts  and  Divine  Healing  Literature  to  those 
who  desire  it  throughout  this  coast. 

One  important  outcome  of  this  work  has  been  the  formation,  in  San  Francisco, 
on  Lord's  Day,  Nov.  11th,  of  the  American  Divine  Healing  Association,  of  which  I 
have  accepted  the  office  of  President  ^ro  tern.  Three  Branches  have  now  been  formed 
in  the  cities  of  San  Francisco,  Oakland  and  San  Jose  respectively,  numbering  about 
seven  hundred  members,  which  are  steadily  growing  and  maintaining  most  inter- 
esting weekly  meetings,  and  conducting  a  widespread  visitation.  It  is  our  inten- 
tion, at  the  close  of  our  missions,  to  establish  Branches  of  this  Association  in 
each  of  the  places  that  we  are  led  of  God  to  visit. 

In  answer  to  many  inquiries,  we  desire  to  inform  Christian  readers  who  are 
interested  that  we  pui-pose,  if  the  Lord  permit,  leaving  this  coast  next  spring. 
Proceeding  eastward,  we  trust  to  hold  missions  in  a  number  of  central  positions 
in  the  United  States.  Thereafter,  we  intend  to  visit  Canada  and  Great  Britain 
and  Ireland.  But  we  can  fix  no  program,  for  our  absolute  duty  is  to  follow  God's 
plan,  and  we  simply  make  these  announcements  in  answer  to  many  inquiries. 
At  the  same  time,  we  shall  be  glad  to  communicate  with  friends  in  many  of  the 
centers  of  population  in  this  and  other  countries,  and  help  by  correspondence, 
and  otherwise,  in  the  extension  of  this  beautiful  gospel  and  ministry  of  Divine 
Healing.  All  who  desire  to  communicate  with  us  will  please  addresss  their 
letters  to  the  office  of  "  Leaves  of  Healing,"  320  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco, 
from  whence  they  will  be  forwarded  to  us  should  we  not  be  in  that  city. 

We  desire  to  record  our  gratitude  to  God  that  He  is  raising  up  able  and  de- 
voted servants  and  handmaidens,  to  whom  we  shall  be  able  to  leave  this  work 
next  year  with  perfect  confidence.  Already,  the  presidents  and  officers  of  the 
variou  Branches  of  the  Association  are  justifying  our  choice,  and  hundreds  of  the 
members  are  engaging  much  more  actively  than  before  in  the  work  of  God  in 
connection  with  their  various  churches,  besides  promoting  this  work. 

Our  ministry  is  to  the  whole  "Household  of  Faith,"  irrespective  of  all  sects 
or  parties.  We  know  only  Christ,  and  desire  to  preach  only  His  atoning  sacrifice, 
and  to  declare  the  blessings  which  flow  therefrom.  From  the  Covenant  of  Jehovah - 
Kophi,  in  Ex.  15  :  23-26,  and  throughout  the  whole  Shining  Way  of  the  Promises 
of  God  in  all  the  Scriptures,  we  see  the  stars  of  Divine  Love  forming  in  the 
Heavens  above  us  the  beautiful  covenant  name,  **I  am  the  Lord  that  healeth 
thee, "  and  the  Stripes  of  that  universal  banner  seem  to  become  more  glorious  every 
day,  as  we  see  more  fully  the  meaning  of  the  prophetic  words,  "With  His  Stripes 
we  are  Healed. "  Beneath  the  Banner  of  the  Cross  we  march  on  to  certain  ultimate 
Triumph,  and,  although  the  way  may  sometimas  be  drear,  and  the  foe  we  know 
is  ever  near,  yet  we  can  follow,  calm  and  fearless,  if  we  are  guided  by  His  hand. 

So  we  send  forth  this  little  book  on  its  way,  prajdng  that  our  "American 
First-Fruits  "  may  be  sweet  to  the  taste  of  many  sick  and  weary  Pilgrims  Zion- 
ward,  leading  them  to  see  in  Jesus  the  Tree  of  Life  whose  fruits  are  always  ready 
for  their  need,  and  whose  words  are  *  *  Leaves  of  Healing  for  the  nations, "  which 
are  now  groaning  beneath  the  oppression  of  Satan  and  Sin  and  Disease  and  Death 
and  Hell,  but  which,  through  the  "  Saving  Health  "  the  Gospel  brings,  shall  yet 
be  brought,  though  dark  days  lie  between,  to  see  in  Christ  their  Saviour,  their 
Healer,  and  their  all. 

Asking  once  more  for  the  prayers  of  every  brother  and  sister  in  Christ  who 
reads  these  lines,  that  we  may  in  all  things  be  led  of  the  Spirit  of  God,  and  sus- 
tained amidst  the  toils  and  trials  of  this  most  blessed  ministry,  we  are 

Your  brother  and  sister  in  Jesus,  John  Alex.  Dowie, 

Jeanie  Dowie. 

Borden,  Fresno  Co.,  Cal,  April  21,  1889. 


American  First- Fruits, 


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Divine  Healing  Missions 

IN  THE 
STATED  OK   CAIvIKORKIA, 

CONDUCTED  BY    THE 

Rev.  John  Alex.  Dowie  |  Mrs.  Dowie^ 


[Extract  from  Record  of  our  Travels  and  Missions  in  August  number  of 
**  Leaves  of  Healing,"  pp.  63-67.] 

On  the  morning  of  Saturday,  16tli  of  June,  the  seats  of  ^  the  corridor  in  the 
hotel  near  my  room  were  crowded  with  persons  desiring  intervievv's  with  me. 
Amongst  these  was  an  aged  woman  from  Sacramento,  who  came  in  leaning  upon 
a  crutch,  and  in  great  pain.  She  wao  accompanied  by  her  daughter.  After  a 
few  words  of  prayer  I  found  she  was  a  most  interesting  character.  She  was  a 
tall,  gaunt-visaged,  weird-looking  person,  abrupt  in  manner,  without  imagina- 
tion, conscious  of  her  ignorance,  and  doubtful  of  her  standing  in  Christ.  She 
presented  a  most  peculiar  study  as  the  conversation  proceeded.  She  said, 
'*  Doctor  "  (most  persons  hero  call  me  doctor),  **  I  am  a  hard  case,  very  poor,  and 
very  ignorant.  My  husband  read  about  you  yesterday  in  Sacramento,  the  capital 
of  this  State,  about  100  miles  distant  from  this  city.  He  said,  'That  is  the  old-time 
religion,  or  else  it  is  all  a  lie;  go  down  and  see  if  the  doctor  is  what  they  say  he  is, 
and  if  he  is. 

You  Will  Come  Back  Cured.' 

I  stared  at  him  in  astonishment.  But  he  was  very  pressing,  and  said,  *  Go  ! '  So 
I  have  come." 

'  *  But  are  you  a  Christian  ?  "  I  said. 

"  I  don't  know,"  she  said;  "  I  want  to  know;  I  do  not  believe  in  saying  I 
am,  unless  I  am  sure. " 

And  then  in  a  few  minutes  she  burst  out,  "  O  Doctor  I  want  to  be  sure  of 
salvation;  you  do  not  know  how  ignorant  I  am;  I  can't  read  or  write;  I  don't 
know  a  B  from  a  bull's  foot;  I  am  jpoor  tvhite  trash;  do  you  know  what  that 
means  ? " 

I  said,   "  Y-es,  you  were  born  in  the  South,  were  you  not?  " 

She  said,  **  Y«s,  they  talk  of  slaves — black  slaves — but  I  have  been  a  white 
slave  all  my  life,  aud  I  am  a  slave  now  as  regards  work.  They  sent  me  out  when 
I  was  only  four  years  old  to  gather  sticks  in  the  woods;  I  was  beaten,  half 
starved  and  cruelly  treated  by  a  drunken  step-father;  I  grew  up  ignorant;  I  do 
not  know  how  to  talk  even  now  to  such  a  geatleman  as  you  5  oh  !  tell  me  how  I 
can  be  sure  of  salvation." 


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I  was  deeply  moved,  for  she  was  speaking  with  a  natural,  or  perhaps  I  should 
say  a  supernatural,  eloquence  that  was  irresistible.  I  gladly  responded  to  her 
cry,  and  it  was  not  long  before  I  had  the  joy  of  seeing  her  led  into  a  simple  trust 
in  Ciirist  as  her  Saviour;  the  Holy  Spirit  had  already  wrought  in  her  conviction 
of  sia,  and  a  fervent  love  for  Christ  the  Righteous,  and  she  was  ready  to  yield 
her  hedrt  to  him.  I  realized  that  Satan  was  condemned,  and  she  was  set  free. 
She  looked  at  me  with  tears  in  her  stony  face,  and  when  I  said,  '*  Now  will  you 
just  trust  Jesus  as  your  healer?  "  she  again  replied,  "Show  me  how." 

I  said,  "  If  Jesus  were  to  enter  this  room  now  and  to  present  himself  to  you, 
would  you  ask  him  to  heal  you,  believing  that  he  would  ?  " 

"  Oh,  yes.  Doctor,"  she  said,  *'  and  I  believe  he  would.*' 

"Then,"  I  replied,  *'  he  is  present." 

She  looked  around.  I  said,  "  Invisibly  present,  for  he  has  said,  *  Lo,  I  am 
with  you  alway.'    If  that  is  true  he  is  here  now  in  spirit  and  in  power." 

*'  Doctor,"  she  said,  "  I  believe  he  is. " 

"Without  another  word  I  kuelt  at  her  feet,  and  asked  her  to  put  the  diseased 
foot  in  my  hand.  She  did  so.  I  took  off  her  slipper,  and,  holding  the  foot  in  my 
hand,  I  prayed  that  God  would  use  me  by  the  Holy  Spirit  in  Jesus'  name,  and  for 
his  sake,  in  her  healing.  When  I  had  finished  praying,  I  looked  up  and  saw  that 
she  was  softly  crying.  I  think  my  attitude  at  her  feet  had  deeply  touched  her; 
but  she  was  looking  upward  lost  in  reverent  prayer.  I  rose  and  said,  **  In  Jesus' 
name,  rise  and  walk  !  "  She  looked  for  the  crutch,  which  I  had  placed  beyond 
her  reach.  I  repeated  the  words,  **In  Jesus'  name,  rise  and  walk  !  "  She  arose, 
and  walked  several  times  across  the  room. 

I  Said.  "You  Are  Healed!" 

She  could  not  speak  for  emotion,  which  she  tried  hard  to  restrain,  but  at  last  gave 
way,  and  falling  on  Mrs.  Dowie's  neck,  kissed  her  warmly,  and  also  embraced  her 
daughter,  whom  she  had  told  me  she  had  not  kissed  for  many  years.  It  was  a 
very  affecting  scene.  The  daughter  was  a  backslider,  but  ere  she  left  the  room 
she  was  restored  to  God.  As  they  were  going  away,  I  said  to  the  old  lady,  "  You 
have  left  something  which  belongs  to  you. " 

She  said,  "What?" 

I  said,  "  Your  crutch." 

"  Oh,"  she  said,  "  I  don't  need  it  any  more;  I  am  healed." 

I  said,  "  What  do  you  intend  to  do  with  it  then  ?  "  holding  it  in  my  hand. 

She  said,  "O  Doctor,  if  you  would  like  to  take  it,  I  will  leave  it  with  you." 

I  said,  "  Very  well;  put  it  in  the  comer."  And  in  the  corner  it  remains,  in 
the  room  where  this  is  now  being  written. 

In  two  days,  on  Monday,  the  19th  of  June,  she  came  back  rejoicing, 
saying  she  had  walked  about  quite  well.  She  told  me  that  she  had  not  for  two 
and  a  half  years  rested  upon  that  foot  without  a  crutch,  and  that  for  ten  months 
she  thought  she  had  not  slept  one  "  solid  hour."  I  asked  her  how  she  slept  now, 
and  she  said,  '*  like  a  baby."  And  then  she  told  me  she  was  going  home.  I  said, 
**  What  are  you  going  to  do  when  you  get  home  ?  " 

"  I  will  tell  all,"  she  said.  "  that 

Jesus  Saved  and  Healed  Even  Me." 

This  incident  I  have  thus  narrated  in  detail,  because  it  is  the  first  case  of 
divine  healing  which  I  have  been  permitted  to  witness,  and  to  be  instrumental  in, 
on  this  great  continent.  I  could  not  have  desired  a  better.  Ignorant,  almost  with- 
out hope,  she  was  one  of  those  common  people  who,  in  the  days  of  Jesus'  earthly 
ministry,  heard  him  gladly,  and  received  him  fully,  not  only  as  their  Saviour,  but 
as  their  Healer.  I  pray  that  she  may  be  the  representative  of  multitudes  who 
shall  thus,  like  the  poor  of  old,  have  this  gospel  preached  unto  them,  and  who 
shall  receive  all  its  saving,  cleansing,  healing,  and  uplifting  power. 

But  let  me  give 

Another  Illustration  of  This  Work. 

Applying  to  a  very  opposite  class  of  American  society.  This  to  me  is  also  in- 
tensely interesting,  and  I  pray  it  may  be  profitable  to  you. 


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On  the  forenoon  of  Wednesday,  20th  of  June,  there  was  a  knock  at  the  door 
of  the  room  in  which  I  am  now  sittmg,  and  a  visitor  was  announced  by  the  at- 
tendant, a  tall,  finely-proportioned,  elegantly-dressed  lady,  who  at  a  glance  I 
could  see  was  one  accustomed  to  move  in  what  is  called  "  society."  Bowing  very 
respectfully,  she  said,  with  her  voice  trembling  with  emotion,  "  Doctor,  will  you 
grant  me  a  conversation  ?  "  Holding  the  keys  of  her  room  in  her  hand,  she  slowly 
extended  it  and  said,  '*  I  also  am  a  guest  in  this  hotel." 

Having  introduced  her  to  Mrs.  Dowie,  she  sat  down  and  told  us  her  story.  It 
was  one  which  I  can  never  forget.  She  said,  as  nearly  as  I  can  recollect  her 
words,  '*  Doctor,  I  have  come,  although  I  knew  it  not,  from  New  York  to  see 
you." 

I  asked  her  to  explain..  She  said:  "Six  weeks  ago  I  was,  as  I  have  been  for 
many  years,  a  worldly,  frivolous,  vain  lady  in  society,  neither  worse  nor  better  than 
my  mother  before  me,  and  like  many  in  my  own  station  of  life  about  me.  It  haa 
pleased  God  (I  would  not  have  used  his  name  six  weeks  ago)  to  give  to  myself 
and  husband  much  wealth;  but  we  never  used  it  except  for  to  gratify  ourselves  and 
to  entertain  people  like  ourselves.  I  used  to  go  to  church  occasionally,  sometimes 
quite  frequently;  but  it  was  a  part  of  society  duty,  of  society  life.  I  never  re- 
member realizing  God's  presence  once  in  any  part  of  the  worship,  or  in  any  of  the 
many  discourses  I  heard.  But  six  weeks  ago  I  was  reading  a  new  book,  to  which 
my  attention  had  been  directed.  I  am  fond  of  reading  and  of  discussing  in  society 
the  literature  of  the  day.  It  was  just  because  it  was  a  book  being  talked  about 
that  I  read  it.  It  was  Prof.  Henry  Drummond's  *  *  Natural  Law  in  the  Spiritual 
World. "  I  was  deeply  impressed,  not  so  much  with  his  reasoning,  which  I  dis- 
puted, but  by  one  thought  which  fastened  itself  upon  my  mind:  I  felt  myself 
standing  upon  the  verge  of  earth  and  time  looking  away  out  into  an  eternity,  and 
I  had  no  hope.  I  felt  intensely  miserable:  I  felt  I  wanted  to  know  God,  for  I  was 
without  hope,  and  I  was  without  God,  in  the  world.  But  I  told  no  one  my 
thoughts,  not  even  my  husband.  I  was  ashamed  to  let  anyone  know  that  I  felt 
that  I  was  a  sinner.  We  were  about  to  start  (my  husband  and  I)  for  Europe,  for 
Paris,  where  my  only  son  is  being  educated,  to  spend  the  summer  on  the  continent. 
But  I  felt  I  could  not  go  in  the  condition  I  was.  So  I  said  to  my  husband,  '  *  Let 
me  go  West  before  we  leave  for  Europe."  Hesaid,  "Whereto?"  Isaid,  "Idon't 
know,  I  think  I  will  go  to  San  Francisco."  He  asked,  "Why?  "  I  would  not 
tell  him.  But  he  agreed,  and  as  we  have  friends,  many  friends,  society  friends, ^^ 
she  added,  "  in  this  city,  he  thought  it  possible  I  might  spend  a  good  time  here, 
and  so  I  came  a  fortnight  ago.  A  few  days  here  with  my  friends  only  made  me 
more  miserable,  for  I  could  see  that  many  of  them  were  as  heartily  sick  of  the 
world  as  I  was.  So  I  left  San  Francisco  and  went  down  to  the  Hotel  Del  Monte 
at  Monterey  "  (this  hotel,  one  of  the  wonders  of  this  continent,  I  visited  when  at 
Pacific  Grove;  it  is  a  fashionable  resort,  at  all  seasons,  of  wealthy  people),  "  there 
I  found  no  relief;  I  wandered  about  the  beautiful  gardens,  and  walked  along  the 
seashore,  but  nature  had  no  balm  for  my  sickness.  One  day  I  lifted  up  quite 
casually,  as  I  thought,  a  San  Francisco  newspaper; 

I  "Was  Startled  with  the  Title 

Of  a  paragraph  on  which  my  eyes  fell,  '  Healing  by  Faith.'  I  read  it,  and  imme- 
diately the  desire  to  see  you  became  intense;  I  could  not  get  rid  of  it,  and  after 
several  days  I  determined  to  come  up  to  the  city  and  stop  at  this  hotel  and  find 
an  opportunity  of  seeing  you.  Two  days  have  passed  away,  and  until  now  I  have 
not  had  the  courage  to  make  my  request. 

"  That  is  all,"  she  said,  "  except  that  I  am  so  weary,  not  yet  forty  years  old, 
and  worn  out.  I  have  worked  harder  in  society,  in  pleasure  seeking  and  pleasure 
giving,  than  any 

Washerwoman  Ever  Worked  at  Her  Tub- 

Oh!  what  must  I  do?" 

Mrs.  Dowie  and  I  were  both  deeply  moved.  I  told  her  how  glad  I  was  to 
see  and  hear  her,  and  how  thankful  to  God  for  the  opportunity  of  telling  her 
what  she  must  do  to  be  saved.  I  pointed  out  to  her  that  the  book  she  had  read 
kad  been  written  by  a  true  Christian  man,  that  notwithstanding  many  differed 


from  his  way  of  putting  some  of  his  arguments,  all  who  knew  him  admitted 
that  his  book  was  written  in  a  reverent  spirit,  with  a  sincere  desire  to  glorify  God, 
and  to  bring  blessing  to  man.  I  remarked  that  he  had  written  the  book  praying 
that  God,  the  Holy  Ghost,  would  use  it;  and  that  it  was  most  pleasant  for  me,  as 
it  would  be  for  him,  to  know  that  God  had  used  it,  in  convincing  her  of  sin  and  of 
the  emptiness  and  vanity  of  her  life. 

I  then  said,  '*  But  conviction  is  not  conversion,  and  before  you  are  converted 
you  must  also  be  convinced  of  the  righteousness  of  Christ. "  I  read  to  her  the 
words  contained  in  John  16  :7-ll.  She  saw  she  had  an  "Advocate  with  the 
Father,  Jesus  Christ  the  righteous. "    I  then  led  her  to  see  that 

He  "Would  Undertake  Her  Case, 

and  we  united  in  prayer  before  our  Father's  throne,  where  she  gave  herself  to  him, 
and  rose  believing  that  she  was  justified,  pardoned,  blessed.  She  rejoiced,  and 
very  calmly,  but  very  firmly,  vowed  that  her  whole  life  should  be  reversed;  that 
her  time,  her  talents,  and  her  wealth,  should  be  consecrated  to  God.  She  said, 
'*  In  some  matters  it  will  be  a  hard  fight,  but  I  see  and  feel  that  I  cannot  return 
to  the  old  life." 

After  further  conversation  I  wrote  a  letter  to  the  Rev.  A.  B.  Simpson,  of 
Madison  Avenue  Tabernacle,  New  York,  introducing  her  to  his  kind  notice  and 
care;  and  she  left  us  saying  she  would  return  the  next  day  to  her  home  in  that 
city.  We  believe  that  she  received  not  only  pardon,  but  healing,  for  she  left  us 
saying  that  she  had  experienced  both. 

These  two  cases  so  widely  difitrent  in  character,  will  give  our  kind  friends  an 
idea  of  how  the  mission  in  this  country  opened. 

[Extract  from  September  number  of  "Leaves  of  Healing,"  po.  82-99.1 

San  Francisco  Mission  and  Its  Closing  Scenes. 

It  will  be  remembered  that  this  Mission  was  conducted  in  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  Hall,  Sutter  Street.  The  meetings  in  the  afternoon  grew 
steadily  in  numbers  and  in  power,  and  a  very  large  proportion  of  those  attending 
were  business  men  who  left  their  offices  and  banks  after  ihree  o'clock,  to  listen  to 
the  *'  Healing-room  Addresses."  Our  closing  afternoon  meetings  were  large,  and 
at  last  completely  filled  the  hall,  many  sitting  on  the  steps  to  the  galleries. 

The  evening  lectures  were  from  the  first  attended  by  audiences  which  filled 
the  building,  and  at  last  crowded  it  out.  One  of  the  morning  papers  of  the  city 
observed  that  "even  standing  room  was  at  a  premium."  From  the  very  first 
meeting  we  had  after-meetings,  attended  on  each  occasion  by  many  hundreds  of 
persons,  and  it  was  our  delight  to  see  large  numbers  seeking  openly  at  these 
meetings  the  Lord  as  their  Saviour.  More  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  persons 
thus  T'rofessed  to  have  found  salvation  in  these  meetings  through  faith  in  Je^us. 

The  work  of  Divine  Healing  went  steadily  on  almost  from  the  first,  but 
during  the  last  five  days  of  the  mission  there  were  many  striking  miracles  of 
healing,  and  numbers  thronged  us  seeking  the  Lord  for  healing,  swelling  into 
hundreds. 

It  is  oiir  intense  regret  that  in  every  mission  we  cannot  see  individuall}-  all 
those  who  desire  to  see  us,  but  we  feel  it  only  makes  us  more  earnest  in  making 
our  message  clear  and  plain,  so  that  the  people  having  received  the  teaching,  may 
thus  directly  seek  Jesus  as  their  healer.  We  long  for  the  day  when  multitudes 
will  be  healed  without  human  touch.  But  when  this  work  is  in  its  infancy  it 
seems  to  be  with  many  an  absolute  necessity  that  they  shaU  have  the  human  helper, 
and  we  pray  that  God  may  send  forth  many  qualified  laborers  into  his  great  harvest- 
fields,  for  truly  we  see  every  day  the  fields  are  "  white  unto  the  harvest."  The 
large  numbers  of  Christians  who  professed  to  receive  blessing  during  this  mission 
greatly  cheered  us,  and  a  very  striking  feature  also  was  the  numerous  requests  for 
prayer  which  came  to  us  from  every  part  of  the  city  and  State,  and  from  all  parts 
of  America.  These  numbered  many  hundreds,  and  in  not  a  few  cases  there  were 
very  dirtct  answers. 

But  time  would  fail  us  to  attempt  any  detailed  account  of  our  long  series  of 
over  sixty  meetings  and  after-meetings  during  that  mission.     It  would  be  wrong. 


r-..*^  8 

however,  for  us  to  omit  to  mention  the  special  meetings  for  men,  which  at  the  re- 
quest of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  we  conducted  for  four  successive 
Lord's  days.  The  crowded  rows  of  earnest  faces  will  never  be  forgotten  by  us, 
and  the  large  numbers  of  men  who  found  Christ  as  Saviour  in  these  meetings  make 
us  deeply  grateful  to  him  who  has  thus  condescended  to  use  us  so  graciously. 

The  hearty  co-operation  of  Mr.  Henry  McCoy,  the  Secretary,  Mr.  Johnson, 
the  Assistant  Secretary,  the  members  of  the  Reception  Committee,  and  large 
numbers  of  young  men  of  the  Association,  was  also  most  gratifying;  and  we  owe 
it  to  them,  and  to  God,  to  record  our  high  appreciation  of  their  constant  kindness. 
Our  janitor,  "John,"  by  his  hearty  good  nature  and  unceasing  devotion  won  the 
love  of  many  hearts,  and  at  our  closing  meeting  a  reference  to  his  kindness  elicited 
a  burst  of  applause. 

So  it  will  be  seen  there  were  many  things  favorable  to  a  successful  mission. 
Yet  there  were  not  a  few  things  unfavorable.  The  doctrine  was  little  known  and  it 
was  discredited  by  many  who  confounded  it  with  Mind  Healing,  or  Christian 
Science  (modified  forms  of  Spiritualism),  which  have  invaded  America  and  done 
much  evil.  We  had  also  to  contend  with  the  apathy  of  many,  and  the  antipathy 
of  some,  of  the  ministers  of  the  gospel.  We  were  very  freely  discussed  (and  the 
discussions  were  reported)  at  ministerial  associations.  .On  various  public  occa- 
sions reference  was  made  to  ourselves,  and  sermons  preached  in  many  churches 
on  the  subject  of  our  mission. 

But  it  may  also  be  stated  that  a  number  of  ministers  openly  avowed  itheir 
adhesion  to  our  teaching,  and  some  of  then  openly  assisted  us  on  our  platform  and 
in  the  after-meetings;  while  others  expressed  their  sympathies  by  their  frequent 
presence  and  by  kind  letters. 

I  had  also  the  privilege  of  preaching  for  my  friend  and  brother,  the  Rev.  M. 
Gibson,  D.  T>. ,  in  the  First  United  Presbyterian  Church,  and  also  in  the  beautiful 
Mariners'  Church,  the  good  pastor  of  which  aided  us  throughout  the  mission. 
We  were  unable  to  avail  ourselves  of  the  invitation  to  preach  for  other  brethren 
owing  to  the  pressure  of  work  in  our  mission. 

Among  the  ministers  who  most  effectually  helped  us,  I  would  desire  to  men- 
tion gratefully  the  names  of  the  Revs.  N.  W.  Lane,  M.  D.,  and  F.  W.  Clapp, 
Congregationalists;  Rev.  Mr.  Arnold,  Free  Church;  Rev.  Mr.  Sterrett,  Metho- 
dist Episcopal,  and  others.  The  first-mentioned  brother,  Dr.  Lane,  minister  and 
medical  doctor,  who  was  unable  to  be  present  at  our  closing  meeting,  sent  us  a 
kind  letter  expressing  himself  as  follows:  "You  have  my  hearty  appreciation  of 
your  labors  of  love  for  the  Master  and  precious  souls  since  you  came  among  us, 
and  I  assure  you  I  am  in  full  sympathy  with  your  presentation  of  a  complete  and 
full  gospel  for  spirit,  soul  and  body,  which  you  so  faithfully  and  successfully 
preach. 

"I  pray  for  you  both  daily  in  family  worship,  making  mention  by  name  of 
yourself  and  dear  wife,  and  shall  continue  to  do  so. 

"  When  I  return  I  wish  to  take  part  in  the  Pacific  Coast  Divine  Healing  As- 
sociation, ariS  go  forward  to  see  the  wonderful  works  of  God  manifested  ia  the 
salvation  of  precious  souls,  their  consecration,  and  the  healing  of  the  diseased. 
God  bless  you  both  greatly." 

The  Association  to  which  Dr.  Lane  refers  will,  we  trust,  be  formed  during 
our  second  mission  in  San  Francisco,  which  will  be  held  in  a  month  or  two,  and 
it  is  a  great  joy  to  us  that  such  men  as  he  and  our  beloved  Brother  Arnold,  and 
others,  will  take  a  leading  part,  with  many  devoted  men  and  women,  in  the 
establishment  of  such  an  organization. 

We  ask  our  friends  everywhere  to  pray  that  we  may  be  divinely  guided  in 
this  portion  of  the  work;  for  good  organization  promotes  progress  and  insures 
success. 

It  was  also  pleasing  during  this  mission  to  have  the  open  testimony  of  sev- 
eral Christian  medical  men,  in  good  practice,  who  attended  our  meetings  and  asked 
us  to  pray  for  their  own  friends  and  relatives. 

There  were  also  representatives,  in  intelligent  teachers  and  prominent  mem- 
bers and  office-bearers,  of  many,  if  not  all,  of  the  evangelical  churches  of  the  city 
m  constant  attendance,  and  the  appreciative  letters  which  we  have  received  would 
fill  a  respectable  little  volume. 


The  Closing  Praise  and  Testimony  Meeting. 

This  was  held  on  the  evening  of  Monday,  July  9.  The  building  was  crowded 
to  its  utmost  capacity  long  before  the  meeting  opened,  and  every  inch  of  standing 
room  was  occupied;  one  of  the  morning  papers  says,  **  Many  hundreds  of  persons 
could  not  obtain  admission."  A  song  service  preceded  our  entrance  upon  the 
platform,  conducted  by  our  kind  friend,  Mr.  Chamberlain.  We  were  engaged 
during  that  time  in  meeting  with  those  who  desired  to  testify,  in  the  parlors  of 
the  Association,  and  it  was  with  difficulty  that  we  could  thread  our  way  to  the 
platform,  with  the  twenty  or  thirty  persons  who  desired  to  speak. 

The  audience  saog  in  fine  style,  '*  We  are  marching  to  Zion,"  and  we  !elt  as 
we  heard  them  sing,  it  was  an  inestimable  joy  to  be  permitted  to  help  those  who 
on  their  Zionward  way  were  groaning  in  pain,  groping  in  blindness,  and  oppressed 
by  the  devil  with  countless  diseases.  We  felt  it  was  a  recompense  for  our  con- 
tinuous and  exhausting  labor  to  see  this  great  multitude  of  faces  lit  up  with  en- 
thusiasm and  expectancy,  and  looking  around  upon  the  blind  who  had  received 
their  sight,  the  lame  who  now  had  received  power  to  walk,  and  the  many  forms 
of  sickness  which  had  been  healed;  we  felt  that  we  had  indeed  been  privileged  to 
be  the  bearers  of  "Leaves  of  Healing  "  from  the  "Tree  of  Life."  After  giving 
the  glory  to  God,  I  presented  the  petitions  for  prayer  which  had  been  received 
since  the  previous  meeting.  Amongst  these  was  one  which  was  so  beautifully 
answered  that  we  cannot  forbear  giving  it  in  detail,  ere  we  proceed  with  the  ac- 
count of  the  meeting.  I  quote  from  a  verbatim  report  of  the  proceedings  now  in 
my  hands,  written  by  Mr.  G.  H.  Hawes,  of  320  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco,  a 
highly  efficient  stenographer  and  type- writer,  who  assists  me  to  overtake  my  very 
extensive  correspondence,  and  to  report  in  full  these  meetings  and  special  lectures. 

The  petition  to  which  I  have  referred  reads  thus:  "Please  pray  earnestly  for 
a  dear  Christian  lady  who  is  dying;  not  expected  to  live  until  to-morrow  morning. 
She  is  suffering  agony,  great  and  intense  pain;  oh!  pray  that  she  may  be  delivered 
from  pain  now — this  moment,  and  that  she  may  find  in  Jesus  her  deliverer." 

Our  prayer  in  presenting  this  petition,  as  reported  by  Mr.  Hawes,  reads  as  fol- 
lows: '*Lord,  we  thank  thee  for  genuine  requests,  and  if  this  sister  is  herself 
a  partaker  in  this  petition,  we  have  no  doubt  as  to  the  answer.  We  lay  it  be- 
fore thy  throne  now  in  the  presence  of  all  thy  people.  We  plead  that  the  disease 
may  be  removed .  It  is  not  thy  will  that  thy  children  should  die  in  agony  and 
pain;  it  is  thy  will  that  when  we  have  served  thee  and  our  generation  'according 
to  the  will  of  God,'  that  we  should  fall  'asleep  in  Jesus;'  that  we  should  mean- 
while obtain  pardon  from  our  sin,  and  that  we  should  be  saved  from  the  power 
of  sin  and  disease  and  death  and  hell,  and  all  the  power  of  the  enemy.  If  it  be 
thy  will  to  give  our  sister  sleep,  we  murmur  not,  but  we  say 

Remove  the  Pain,  Remove  the  Disease, 

And  we  know  we  are  saying  it  in  accordance  with  thy  will,  and  if  she  is  co-oper- 
■qting  with  us  in  faith,  then  the  answer  has  come  to  that  silent  room,  and  now  thou 
art  saying,  'Peace,  be  still.'" 

The  following  morning  I  received  a  beautiful  letter  from  the  lady  who  sent 
the  petition.  Miss  Laura  V.  Stone,  807  Leavenworth  St.,  S.  F.,  from  which  we 
quote  the  following  words: — 

"  I  wish  to  thank  God  for  the  instantaneous  answer  to  prayer  last  night  for 
the  dear  Christian  lady  who  seemed  at  death's  door.  You  remember  that  you 
prayed  that  she  might  be  relieved  from  pain,  and  find  Jesus  as  her  healer  and  de- 
liverer. The  first  part  of  the  prayer  was  fully  answered  last  night,  as  she  passed 
a  comfortable  night  without  pain,  and  is  much  better  this  afternoon,  although 
very  weak.  I  have  just  come  from  her  bedside,  from  which  she  sends  you  a 
message  of  thanks,  and  asks  your  continued  prayers.  She  has  been  sick  many, 
many  years,  a  great  sufferer,  was  unable  to  move  hand  or  foot,  not  even  her  head 
from  the  pillow,  and  when  moved  by  others  the  pain  was  most  severe. 

"Please  thank  God  for  what  he  did  last  night,  and  continue  to  pray  that 
she  may  be  kept  free  from  all  pain,  and  that  her  healing  shall  be  perfected.  Oh, 
how  I  long  for  this,  that  Jesus  Christ  may  be  glorified  in  that  household,  which 
is  one  of  faith  and  prayer.  Pray  for  me  also.  God  bless  you  and  keep  you  and 
your  dear  family,  is  the  prayer  of  your  sister  in  Christ. " 


10 

Still  quoting  from  Mr.  Hawea'  report,  we  find  that  in  opening  the  meeting  we 
said  iu  prayer:  "And  now.  Lord,  we  commend  this  meeting  to  thee.  Bless  this 
great  company;  bless  those  who  are  here  as  thy  witnesses  to  thy  saving,  healing 
and  cleansing  power;  some  were  great  sinners;  they  feel  themselves  very  un- 
worthy; they  are  saved,  they  are  healed;  we  give  thee  glory.  Some,  O  Lord,  are 
not  as  perfectly  healed  as  we  would  desire  to  see;  perfect  their  consecration  and 
perfect  their  healing.  And  now  we  Give  thee  all  the  Praise.  We  have 
DONE  NOTHING,  thou  hast  done  it  all.  Thine  is  the  kingdom  and  the  power  and 
the  glory.  Let  good  go  forth  from  this  meeting  through  this  beautiful  city  and 
State;  yea,  wilt  thou  bless  all  throughout  this  broad  and  beautiful  laud,  and  may 
multitudes  hearing  that  thou  art  healing  know 

'That  the  healing  of  thy  seamless  dress 
Is  by  their  beds  of  pain,' 
That  they  may  know  also,  who  are  walking  this  world  bowed  down  with  suffering, 
that  they 

•May  touch  thee  in  life's  throng  and  press. 
And  be  made  whole  again,' 

Even  midst  the  streets  of  the  cities.     We  ask  it  for  Jesus'  sake.     Amen." 

We  then  sang,  "She  only  touched  the  hem  of  thy  garment,"  and  after  the 
reading  of  Scripture  by  Mrs.  Dowie,  we  made  the  announcements  concerning  our 
future  missions,  and  recorded  our  thanks  publicly  to  Mr.  McCoy,  the  Secretary, 
and  the  members  of  the  Association.  The  testimony  meeting  was  then  proceeded 
with.  We  first  of  all  again  gave  God  the  glory  and  repeated  our  declaration 
that  "we  never  healed  anybody,  that  we  never  expected  to  heal  anyone,  that  we 
never  attempted  to  heal  anyone,  and  that  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  our  Saviour  and 
Healer  and  Sanctifier,  had  by  the  Holy  Spirit  wrought  the  work."  We  again  de- 
fined our  position  with  reference  to  Mind  Cure,  Mental  Healing,  Christian  Science, 
and  Spiritualism,  declaring  that  with  these  things  "we  had  not  one  thought  in 
common,  or  one  single  desire  to  co-operate." 

The  first  testimony  was  one  that  created  intense  interest  and  made  a  profound 
impression;  it  was  that  of 

The  Restoration  to  Sight  of  a  Little  Boy  who  had  been  Born 

BUnd. 

Quoting  again  from  the  verbatim  report,  we  find  that  we  said  the  following 
words:  "Here  is  the  little  boy"  (presenting  him  to  the  audience,  a  bright,  in- 
telligent little  fellow,  whose  opened  eyes  were  looking  around  in  every  direction 
with  keen  interest  upon  the  meeting).  He  is  a  fatherless  little  boy.  Is  it  not 
written  of  our  God,  'Heis  the  father  of  the  fatherless  ?  "  This  little  fellow  at- 
tended the  meetings;  he  was  blind.  Dr.  Barcon  said  he  was  blind  from  birth. 
I  did  not  know  he  was  here;  he  sat  and  listened  to  the  word  and  received  it. 
The  good  doctor  had  operated  upon  his  eyes  three  years  ago;  he  had  done  the 
best  he  could;  he  is  a  kind  man  and  had  taken  a  great  deal  of  interest  in  the  lad» 
The  little  fellow  listened  earnestly  to  the  teaching,  and  heard  me  say  to  the 
people. 

Yon  Mnst  be  Saved  First. 

Then  he  told  us  that  he  heard  us  say  in  the  after  meeting,  "  Those  who  want 
to  find  salvation,  stand  up!"  He  said,  "  What  does  it  mean,  mother?"  And  she 
said,  "As  near  as  I  can  tell  you,  Georgie,  it  means  that  you  are  to  give  yourself 
wholly  to  Christ."    He  said,  "That  is  just  what  I  will  do."     And  he  did  it. 

So  the  next  day  he  came  into  the  meeting  rejoicing  in  Christ.  It  was  July 
the  Ith,  your  great  fire- work's  day;  my  attention  had  been  drawn  to  him,  and  I 

E remised  to  see  him  that  afternoon.     When  he  came  into  the  healing  room  with 
is  mother  (who  is  now  present)  we  said  after  prayer,  "Now,  Georgie,  are  you  sure 
that  you  are  saved  ?  " 

"Yes,  sir,"  he  replied,  "lam." 
"When  were  you  saved?" 
"  Yesterday, "  he  said. 
"How  were  you  saved ?" 

"Well,"  he  said,  "I  had  been  trying  to  trust  Jesus  all  my  life,  and  yesterday  1 
did  it,  sir." 


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"Well,  that  is  all  right.    Now  do  you  expect  Jesus  to  give  you  sight ?  " 

He  said,  * '  I  am  sure  he  will,  sir.  *' 

I  laid  my  hands  upon  him  and  we  prayed.  When  he  opened  his  eyes,  the^ 
little  boy  who  had  been  blind  from  birth  could  see.  Here  is  the  result:  the  boy 
is  now  looking  upon  you  with  the  power  to  see.  Let  me  read  the  written  testi- 
mony that  his  mother  has  placed  in  my  hands  to  be  read  to  this  meeting,  and  she 
will  afterwards  herself  rise  and  confirm  the  words: — 

"My  little  boy  Georgie  was  afflicted  from  birth  with  blindness.  Three 
years  ago  an  operation  was  performed  by  Dr.  Barcon  of  this  city.  The  boy  was 
able  to  distinguish  day  from  night,  and  sometimes  bright  colors,  red  and  blue. 
For  ten  years  he  has  been  unable  to  walk,  until  now,  without  being  led  by  the 
hand,  when  outside  the  house.  He  never  saw  an  object,  so  far  as  we  know,  dur- 
during  these  ten  years,  not  a  single  object  to  know  what  it  was.  Jesus  has  now, 
through  Mr.  Dowie's  agency,  restored  his  sight  almost  entirely;  he  can  now  walk 
alone,  see  houses,  chimneys,  and  small  objects  very  readily.  He  can  also  see 
print  of  large  size,  and  it  can  be  read  by  him;  something  I  never  expected  to  see 
him  do.  My  little  boy  is  bright  and  happy  now,  and  gives  God  all  the  glory. 
Praise  his  name  forever. " 

"I  was  also,"  adds  the  writer,  Mrs.  Lula  Ritchville,  of  1241  Mission  Street, 
San  Francisco,  "instantly  cured  of  internal  hemorrhage  of  some  weeks'  standing 
without  any  laying  on  of  hands,  at  the  first  meeting  I  attended. " 

This  letter  having  been  read,  we  turned  to  the  boy  and  said: — 

"Now,  Georgie,  let  us  see  you."  (The  boy  was  sitting  on  the  platform  be- 
hind us,  and  rose  and  came  forward.)  "What  have  you  got  to  tell  the  people, 
dear?" 

"I  don't  know,  sir." 

"Were  you  blind?" 

**  Yes,  sir,  I  was  blind." 

"Can  you  see?" 

"I  can  see  very  good." 

"  Who  gave  you  sight  ?  " 

"Jesus." 

"Well,  now  I  do  not  know  how  to  talk  to  the  boy,"  continued  Mr.  Dowie, 
"he  is  only  beginning  to  understand  objects.  Come  now,  when  do  you  say  it  was 
you  got  your  sight  ?  " 

"July  the  4th,  sir." 

(This  is  Independence  Day  in  America,  and  fireworks  in  the  public  streets  and 
everywhere  are  continually  going  off.)     "  Bid  you  see  the  fireworks  ?  " 

"Yes,  sir." 

"  Were  they  very  beautiful  ?  " 

"  Yea,  sir."    (Spoken  very  emphatically.) 

Mr.  Bowie  said:  "His  mother  told  me  that  evening  that  he  said  to  her,  'Don't 
you  think,  mother,  God  will  forgive  me  if  I  don't  go  down  to  the  meeting  to- 
night; I  do  want  to  see  these  fireworks;  they  do  look  beautiful. '  " 

We  showed  him  in  the  presence  of  the  audience  our  watch,  which  he  was 
able  to  distinguish  at  a  distance,  telling  the  people  which  side  was  turned  to  him, 
the  open  face  or  the  back.  We  took  a  bouquet  of  flowers  from  the  hands  of  one 
in  the  audience  and  asked  him  to  point  out  the  various  colors;  he  described  their 
colors  without  hesitation,  distinguishing  each  color,  and  even  shades  of  color. ' 
We  showed  him  a  little  pair  of  peculiarly  constructed  folding  nail  scissors,  which 
we  use,  which  he  at  once  recognized,  and  other  objects,  amongst  which  were 
coins,  which  he  told  us  the  value  of.  The  last  one  that  we  held  up  was  a  silver 
dollar,  and  we  said,  "If  you  guess  right  you  shall  have  it."  He  did  so,  and  got  it. 
We  told  the  people  also  of  how  on  the  afternoon  of  that  day  in  our  rooms  at  the 
Palace  Hotel  we  sent  him  upon  a  voyage  of  discovery,  and  how  he  went  to  every 
part  of  the  rooms,  and  looked  at  unfamiliar  objects,  and  made  very  remarkable 
observations  concerning  them.  Amongst  these  was  a  certain  round  cylindrical 
black  object,  and  he  said,  "Oh,  ain't  that  a  funny  box."  I  told  him  to  lift  the 
box  and  put  it  on  his  head.  He  did  so  and  found  it  was  my  silk  hat,  which  com- 
pletely covered  his  face. 

Mrs.  Ritchville,  the  mother  of  the  boy,  then  gave  personal  testimony.    She 


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said:  **  He  waa  about  a  year  old  when  I  discovered  he  was  totally  blind,  although 
the  doctors  all  said  he  was  born  blind.  He  has  been  very  busy  learning  the 
names  of  things,  and  is  learning  by  feeling  and  sight  together;  he  feels  and  sees 
and  then  distinguishes  objects,  and  after  he  has  seen  an  article  he  knows  what  it 
is.     He  has  to  learn  to  see. 

"  When  I  was  coming  here  to-night  on  the  horse-cars,  it  was  the  first  time 
he  ever  saw  a  horse.  He  amused  the  ladies  and  gentlemen  in  the  car  talking 
about  it.  He  said,  *  Mamma,  the  horse's  tail  is  made  of  hair,  I  thought  it  was 
like  a  dog's  tail.     And  look,  mamma,  he  has  a  moustache  on  his  head. ' " 

At  this  point  the  people  laughed  almost  uutd  they  cried,  and  we  closed  that 
testimony,  saying  that  it  had  often  amused  us  to  note  the  peculiar  observations 
of  those  who  had  just  received  their  sight.  For  instance,  I  had  asked  Georgie  to 
say  what  the  color  of  my  hair  was  on  top  of  my  head,  and  he  said,  *'  You  have 
none,  you  are  bald."  We  believe  Elisha  was  bald-headed,  and  so  we  are,  at  least 
in  that  particular,  like  one  of  the  prophets.  We  have  sometimes  been  mocked 
for  this  baldness;  but  we  have  never  found  it  to  be  an  infirmity.  Those  who  re- 
proved the  ancient  prophet  at  Bethel  (2  Kings  2  :23,  24)  found  that  mocking  a 
man  of  God  was  a  serious  matter;  and  there  are  still  "she-bears  "  about,  and 
"  he-bears  "  also,  for  that  matter. 

A  Little  Girl  12  Years  of  Age  Healed  of  Ulcerated  Legs. 

This  was  the  next  case  presented,  and  from  this  difficulty  she  had  suffered 
for  six  years.  She  walked  up  and  down  perfectly  free,  and  her  mother  added 
ier  testimony. 

Instantly  Healed  after  Twenty-six  Years  on  Crutches. 

The  third  case  which  testified  was  one  of  great  interest;  it  was  that  of  Mrs. 
doffin,  of  54  Shipley  Street,  S.  F. ,  who  had  been  healed  after  twenty-six  years  on 
-crutches,  during  which  time  she  had  suffered  great  and  almost  constant  pain. 
We  will  quote  an  account  of  this  case  from  Mr.  Hawes'  verbatim  report: — 

**Mr.  Dowie  introduced  to  the  meeting  Mr.  Charles  D.  Coffin,  saying: 
*  This  brother  is  present  to  testify  on  behalf  of  his  wife  who  has  been  healed  by 
the  Lord  during  this  mission.  She  came  into  my  room  on  her  crutches  with  Mrs. 
Dowie.  I  found  her  an  earnest,  consistent  Christian,  a  member  of  the  First 
United  Presbyterian  Church  of  this  city,  and  she  received  from  the  Lord  an  in- 
stantaneous and  perfect  healing.  Her  written  testimony  is  in  my  hands,  but  I 
"will  ask  her  husband  to  speak  and  tell  the  story  more  fully.'  Turning  to  Mr. 
Coffin,  Mr.  Dowie  said,  *  How  many  years  was  she  on  crutches  ? '  He  replied, 
'All  her  life.'  Mr.  Dowie  continued:  '  I  may  say  the  moment  she  was  healed  I 
was  going  to  let  her  out  at  the  side  door;  I  do  not  believe  in  creating  much  excite- 
ment when  people  are  healed.  I  said,  'Go  home  and  thank  God,  and  come  to  the 
testimony  meeting.'  She  said,  *My  husband  is  in  the  meeting,  let  me  go  and  see 
him, '  and  she  burst  out  into  this  hall;  running  on  both  legs.  She  made  a  rush  for 
him,  and  they  had  a  good  kiss  in  public.  But  'he  is  of  age,'  let  him  speak  for 
himself. " 

Mr.  Coffin  said:  "I  cannot  express  to  you  how  sorry  I  feel  that  my  wife 
is  not  here  to-night;  We  waited  till  close  on  to  8  o'clock  to  see  if  the  baby  would 
not  be  well  enough  so  we  could  make  the  venture,  and  then  I  thought  of  her 
coming  alone,  but  she  had  not  been  around  much  in  the  city.  She  was  very  anx- 
ious to  come  and  tell  how  she  had  been  healed.  I  know  she  will  be  waiting  for 
me  to  come  home  and  tell  all  about  the  meeting. 

"She  came  here  and  listened  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Dowie  teaching  this  beautiful 
doctrine,  and  day  by  day  she  grew  in  faith  and  believed  his  teaching  fully,  as  be- 
ing that  of  the  word  of  God.  She  had  seven  open  wounda  on  her  limbs,  and 
moving  about  on  crutches  kept  up  such  an  irritation,  that  at  all  times  there  was  a 
suppuration.  We  had  to  attend  to  her  morning  and  evening,  if  not  oftener.  We 
fixed  her  up  4th  of  July  morning  and  came  here  to  the  afternoon  meeting,  and  she 
went  into  the  room  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie.  She  received  a  perfect  healing, 
after  Mr.  Dowie  prayed  and  laid  hands  on  her  in  the  name  of  the  Lord.  The 
^rst  I  knew  of  it  was  when  she  came  running  up  to  me,  to  my  astonishment. 


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with  both  arms  extended,  and  she  said,  'O  Charley!  Charley!'  and  kissed  me. 
She  came  as  quickly  towards  me  as  I  could  go  myself  towards  her  with  my  two 
sound  limbs.  And  when  we  left  this  hall  she  walked  readily  downstairs  to  the 
cars,  and  walked  from  the  cars  to  our  house;  she  goes  up  and  downstairs  and 
does  everything,  and  we  have  been  very  happy.  She  told  me  to-day  she  had  been 
up  on  Market  St.  (one  of  the  principal  streets  for  shops  in  the  city),  and  she  took 
the  baby  with  her.  She  had  to  carry  it  some  way,  and  the  baby  probably  weighs 
twenty-five  pounds  or  more.     She  said  she  got  along  finely. 

••We  give  God  all  the  glory.  We  are  so  glad  Brother  Dowie  came  here;  glad 
we  heard  him,  and  that  through  the  teaching  she  has  received  faith  to  be  healed, 
and  I  think  she  is  permanently  healed.  When  she  was  three  years  old  she  went 
to  school  with  her  oldest  lister,  and  when  leaving  school  she  kind  of  hesitated  on 
the  top  of  the  stairs,  and  the  teacher  gave  her  a  slight  push,  and  she  fell  headlong 
to  the  foot  of  the  stairs,  and  she  has  sutfered  ever  since  and  has  had  to  use  crutches. 
That  was  twenty-six  years  ago;  she  is  now  29." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "Twenty-six  years  07i  crf^^cAes,  and  the  Lord  healed  her  in 
less  than  twenty-six  seconds  of  time.  [Hearty  applause  by  the  audience.]  We 
will  praise  God  for  that."     (•'  Amen,"  was  heard  from  all  parts  of  the  hall.) 

A  Sufferer  for  Twenty-eight  Years- 

The  fourth  case  was  that  of  Miss  Amy  F.  Wilcox,  of  211  Oak  Street,  San 
Francisco.  She  had  been  saved  and  healed  in  the  same  hour.  She  had  lost  faith 
in  God,  and  had  passed  through  many  dreadful  experiences.  We  quote  again, 
from  the  verbatim  report: — 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  *'  At  one  of  our  meetings  when  the  call  was  made  for  sinners 
to  seek  salvation,  this  young  woman  (who  then  came  forward)  rose  up  on  her 
crutches  and  came  right  up  here  to  the  platform.  She  sought  salvation.  There 
are  many  persons  who  saw  her  that  afternoon — all  who  saw  this  girl  sit  here  seek- 
ing salvation  (for  she  could  not  kneel)  and  who  saw  her  afterwards  rise  and  walk 
without  her  crutches,  will  you  please  stand  up  ?  "  (A  number  of  persons  stood 
up.)  Mr.  Dowie  continued:  **  I  see  about  twenty  witnesses.  She  came  up  and 
she  sought  salvation;  she  found  it.  She  sought  healing;  she  found  it  through 
faith  in  Jesus.  I  never  touched  her;  she  laid  down  her  crutches  and  she  walked 
back  to  her  seat  without  them,  and  she  has  been  walking  ever  since.  For  twenty- 
eight  years  her  limbs  were  diseased;  for  three  years  she  had  not  been  oflF  her 
crutches  once  to  go  on  the  street,  and  but  a  little  time  in  the  house,  but  she  could 
not  walk  for  ten  months  past.  This  is  in  many  respects  a  most  peculiar  case,  and 
there  are  many  things  concerning  it  of  which  we  cannot  speak  publicly." 

Miss  Wilcox  then  came  forward  and  corroborated  Mr.  Dowie's  testimony,  and 
said,  •*  I  have  never  been  on  crutches  since  I  laid  them  down  here;  I  carried  them 
home  in  my  hand  and  left  them  standing  behind  the  door,  and  I  will  give  them  to 
anyone  who  has  not  found  faith  in  Jesus,  that  sweet  faith  in  Jesus  which  enabled 
me  to  rest  in  him  as  my  healer.  Thank  God,  I  have  found  him.  I  have  suflfered 
much;  he  has  delivered  me  from  great  perils;  it  was  a  terrible  battle,  but  God 
has  won  it  for  me  and  the  victory  is  glorious."  (**Amen"  from  all  parts  of  the 
audience. ) 

"How  long  have  you  been  walking,"  asked  Mr.  Dowie. 

"Eight  days,  and  I  feel  perfectly  well;  healed  of  all  my  diseases." 

Instantaneous  Healing  without  Human  Touch. 

The  fifth  case  was  that  of  Mrs.  E.  Barnes,  of  303  Octavia  St.,  S.  F.  It  was  a 
case  of  healing  without  human  touch,  instantaneous,  perfect,  and,  so  far  as  man 
can  see,  permanent.     Mrs.  Barnes  said: — 

"I  would  like  to  say  to  the  people  that  I  came  in  here  simply  out  of  curiosity. 
I  was  deeply  interested  in  this  little  once-blind  boy,  and  although  I  had  never 
seen  him,  I  heard  of  him,  and  I  being  a  mother,  and  when  young  was  blind 
myself  for  many  months,  I  always  feel  interested  in  anyone  who  is  blind.  I  had 
heard  of  this  child's  faith  in  Jesus,  and  felt  sure  he  was  going  to  get  his  sight  when 
he  came  here.  He  was  the  burden  of  my  prayer  as  I  bowed  down  here  in  the 
meeting.     I  did  not  think  of  myself,  but  I  was  praying  to  Jesus,  believing  that 


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he  was  the  healer.  After  the  meeting  was  over  (it  was  very  late)  I  had  to  go 
from  here  to  Market  St.  to  catch  a  car,  and  I  found  myself  running;  I  stopped 
with  surprise  and  found  that  I  had  been  healed.  I  had  an  ulcerated  leg  for  six 
months  and  had  not  been  able  to  walk  three  blocks.  1  did  not  know  where  to 
put  my  foot  for  pain,  and  when  I  found  myself  running  to  catch  that  car  I  was 
astonished  and  said,  *  Where  is  the  pain  ? '  I  put  my  foot  down  again  and  I  found 
no  pain  whatever.     The  next  day  I  walked  about  all  day  long  and  felt  no  difficulty. 

"  I  felt  it  was  my  duty  to  return  thanks  to  God,  and  to  encourage  this 
gentleman  in  his  work,  and  also  that  others  may  have  faith  in  Christ.  I  claim 
that  Christ  healed  me,  and  he  has  healed  me  perfectly.  He  will  heal  anybody 
else  who  put  their  trust  in  him.  I  feel  that  I  am  a  new  woman,  for  I  am  healed 
all  through." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  **  This  is  a  case  of  healing  without  human  touch;  I  did  not 
know  she  was  healed,  and  you  cannot  attribute  that  to  Magnetism,  Mind  Heal- 
ing, Christian  Science  or  Mesmerism.     Is  her  husband  here  ?  " 

"Yes,"  replied  a  voice  from  the  gallery. 

Mr.  Dowie:  "Is  that  all  right?  What  have  you  got  to  say  about  your  wife's 
healing?  " 

"  Only  that  she  is  quite  cured,  sir.  And  I  would  like  also  to  state  that  while 
in  East  Boston  we  employed  four  of  the  best  doctors  and  they  attended  my  wife 
for  six  months,  and  were  perfectly  useless.  We  had  the  homeopathists,  the  allo- 
pathists  and  all  the  pathists,  but  your  doctoring  has  done  the  business." 

Mr.  Dowie:  "Hallelujah!  I  believe  in  my  Doctor.  He  is  your  Doctor;  he 
is  my  Doctor;  he  is  the  Doctor  of  all  his  people." 

"  Now  at  this  point,"  said  Mr.  Dowie,  "I  will  ask  a  question.  How  many 
here  believe  that  Jesus  Christ  is  the  healer  ?  How  many  have  received  the 
doctrine  which  we  have  been  teaching,  and  believe  it  to-night?  Stand  up. "  Nearly 
the  whole  audience  seemed  to  stand  to  their  feet,  and  they  sang  the  Doxology, 
**  Praise  God  from  whom  all  blessings  flow,"  with  great  earnestness.  Mr.  Dowie 
said,  "Thank  God  for  that.  Now  there  is  another  question:  How^  many  of  you 
who  have  been  through  this  mission  are  not  yet  convinced?  Please  hold  up  your 
hands."  After  looking  all  around  the  audience  Mr.  Dowie  said:  "I  reckon  I 
will  have  to  get  a  magnifying  glass  to  see  you."    Some  person  cried  out,  **  One." 

"  Well,  the  Lord  bless  him,"  responded  Mr.  Dowie,  "it  takes  a  good  deal  to 
convince  that  brother;  he  has  the  courage,  though,  of  his  opinion." 

Healing  of  Mental  Derangement. 

The  sixth  case  was  that  of  Mrs.  Laura  M.  Foster,  of  1331  Union  Street,  San 
Prancisco.  Her  name  was  at  first  withheld,  but  since  then  she  has  agreed  it  should 
be  given;  she  rose  up  and  confirmed  the  written  testimony  which  she  placed  in 
our  hands.  It  is  in  its  details  a  very  interesting  case  of  healing,  because  it  is  the 
cure  of  a  mental  derangement.     In  her  letter  she  says  : — 

"I  write  to  tell  you  that  through  your  instrumentality  in  these  beautiful 
mission  meetings  I  have  received  Christ;  that  he  dwells  in  my  heart  by  faith;  I 
am  saved.  I  have  also  to  thank  the  Lord  for  the  healing  of  a  mental  ailment. 
An  eminent  physician  of  this  city,  Dr.  De  Vecchi,  said  it  was  due  to  purely  me- 
chanical action:  that  which  should  have  been  thrown  off  from  the  system  by 
natural  channels  was  suppressed,  which  overcharged  the  blood-vessels  of  the 
brain,  and  caused  irritation;  my  nature  seemed  to  be  changed;  I  doubted  my 
friends  and  thought  they  were  persecuting  me,  especially  my  nearest  and  dearest 
one,  a  most  devoted  and  self-sacrificing  sister.  Life  became  a  burden  to  her. 
My  health  was  broken  down,  and  I  think  she  could  not  have  endured  much 
longer.  A  kind  friend  called  our  attention  to  these  meetings,  and  after  the  very 
first  my  sister  said  she  noticed  in  me  signs  of  mental  healing;  the  second  day  she 
tells  me  it  was  placed  beyond  a  doubt.  Our  home  from  being  a  most  unhappy 
one  became  the  abode  of  joy  and  peace.  My  heart  is  unutterably  full  of  thanks- 
giving, and  my  love  and  gratitude  to  God  and  to  you  cannot  be  expressed  in 
words." 

Mr.  Dowie  said  :  "Will  the  sister  just  rise  for  a  moment  wherever  she  is  and 
oonfirm  her  letter  ?  " 


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A  very  sweet-faced  lady  of  about  40  years  of  age  rose  up  and  added  a  few 
words  in  a  gentle  tone  of  voice,  saying,  "That  is  all  true,  and  I  thank  God  for  hia 
great  goodness. " 

Healing  of  Rupture  without  Human  Touch. 

The  next  case  was  that  of  a  young  man  by  the  name  of  Mr.  Jackson,  who 
was  healed  of  a  serious  rupture  without  human  touch.  He  said:  '*  I  am  very 
glad  to  testify  on  this  occasion  that  I  received  healing  through  Mr.  Dowie's  min- 
istry. I  met  him  down  at  Monterey  and  told  him  of  my  case;  he  invited  me  to 
go  to  the  meetings.  I  came  two  weeks  ago  and  listened  to  him.  I  immediately 
believed  the  Doctor's  teaching,  and  went  to  my  room  in  prayer,  and  pretty  soon 
I  had  so  much  confidence  that  I  threw  off  my  truss.  I  went  along  until  the  next 
Monday,  when  I  had  great  pain  for  a  short  time;  but  I  left  it  with  the  Great 
Physician;  I  had  full  confidence  in  his  power,  and  willingness,  and  since  that  time 
I  have  felt  no  trouble  at  all,  and  I  have  not  had  on  my  truss  for  two  weeks. 

"  I  wish  to  return  my  thanks  to  l)r.  Dowie  and  his  lovely  wife  [Mr.  Dowie 
exclaimed,  "That  is  true'."],  that  1  have  found  in  Jesus  Christ  not  only  my  Saviour, 
but  my  Physician  and  Healer,  and  to  him  I  shall  give  all  the  glory.  In  the  future 
it  will  be  my  highest  endeavor  to  serve  him  faithfully,  and  to  fulfill  his  will." 

Salvation  and  Healing  of  a  Well-Known  Notary. 

The  next  case  was  that  of  a  very  interesting  one  of  a  gentleman  who  pro- 
fessed to  be  healed  only  that  afternoon.  Quoting  once  more  from  the  verbatim 
report,  we  find  these  words  : — 

Mr.  Dowie  said  :  "  Now,  friends,  there  is  a  case  here  to-night  which  I 
would  not  have  asked  to  testify,  but  the  gentleman  came  up  himself  to  the  pri- 
vate room  where  we  were  holding  a  little  meeting  before  this,  and  wished  to  do 
so.  The  case  is  not  as  perfect  as  some  of  the  others,  but  is  deeply  interesting.  Mr. 
J.  E.  Brown  is  a  Notary  Public  in  this  city,  and  he  has  been  attending  the  mission 
continuously,  walking  in  and  out  of  this  hall  upon  hia  crutches,  which  he  had 
used  for  six  years.  He  was  not  saved;  he  listened  earnestly,  and  not  a  meeting 
has  passed  but  what  we  have  seen  him  in  that  corner  listening  eagerly  to  the 
word  of  the  living  God.  I  did  not  lay  hands  upon  him  until  to-day,  and  now  you 
will  all  see  he  is  walking  about  without  his  crutches,  although  very  feeble  in  his 
legs.  I  do  not  say  he  is  altogether  just  as  perfect  as  I  should  like  to  see  him, 
but  I  rejoice  greatly  for  many  reasons  in  his  blessing." 

Mr.  Brown  then  came  forward,  walking,  and  in  answer  to  a  call  from  some 
of  his  friends  walked  to  and  fro  on  the  platform.  The  audience  was  much  ex- 
cited, and  applauded  earnestly,  for  Mr.  Brown  is  well  known  in  San  Francisco. 
He  said:  "Well,  dear  friends,  Christian  ladies  and  gentlemen,  through  the  inter- 
position of  a  warm  and  dear  friend  of  mine  I  was  induced  just  a  fortnight  ago  to 
enter  the  portals  of  this  hall .  Shame  upon  me,  I  have  to  confess  that  I  have 
grown  up  from  childhood  in  this  State  and  have  not  attended  a  meeting  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  I  had  not  been  a  stranger  to  the  divine 
teaching,  for  my  father  and  mother  (now  in  Heaven)  and  all  the  rest  of  my  family, 
axe  of  the  household  of  faith.  But  thank  God  my  mother's  prayers  are  answered. 
I  was  the  wayward  one  ;  in  fact,  my  father's  fortune  was  my  misfortune,  and 
there  are  numbers  within  the  sound  of  my  voice  who  know  I  was  a  pretty  hard 
case.  There  was  a  general  invitation  extended  here  for  persons  to  come  up  and 
be  saved  and  seek  the  salvation  of  their  souls.  I  ventured  up  here  ["Thank  God," 
from  the  audience],  and  I  went  down  there  and  prayed  earnestly  to  God  for  salva- 
tion and  to  escape  from  the  thraldom  of  sin,  and  I  arose  convinced  that  I  had 
been  forgiven.  ["Hallelujah! "  from  Mr.  Dowie.]  I  consecrated  myself  to  God,  and 
I  pledged  myself  on  my  knees  that  my  subsequent  life  should  be  devoted  to  him 
and  to  doing  good.  I  had  said  nothing  about  healing;  I  was  following  the  pro- 
gram of  the  reverend  gentleman's  teaching.  I  think  it  is  teaching,  preaching 
and  then  healing.  ["That  is  it,"  from  Mr.  Dowie.]  I  kept  still;  I  asked  God  to 
give  me  strength,  strength  in  my  limbs,  strength  in  my  knees,  and  when  I  felt 
myself  prepared  for  it  I  asked  the  Doctor — excuse  me,  sir,  for  calling  you  Doctor. 
{Mr.  Dowie  replied,  "  Never  mind  !  they  all  do  it."]  I  asked  him  if  he  would  lay 
hands  on  me  and  bless  me. 


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"Now  a  few  words  in  reference  to  my  affliction.  I  was  attacked  with 
paralysis  in  1882.  Within  the  last  three  years  I  have  been  unable  to  walk 
without  the  aid  of  crutches,  and  consequently  was  totally  unfit  for  the  active 
duties  of  life.  I  gathered  strength  here  with  the  spiritual  comfort  and  conso- 
lation. A  leading  physician  of  this  city  long  since  pronounced  my  case  hopeless. 
One  very  eminent  physician  told  me,  after  making  a  diagnosis,  that  to  take  off 
the  left  leg  would  save  the  right;  that  was  the  only  hope  I  had.  It  did  finally 
affect  the  right  leg.  Since  that  time  I  have  consulted  physicians  without  help. 
Then  I  investigated  Christian  science,  and  went  through  that.  I  got  the  whole 
twelve  lectures  for  $20,  but  I  did  not  get  cured.  You  get  the  whole  business  in 
twelve  lectures,  and  you  look  wise  and  say  nothing;  that  is  about  the  program. 
That  is  a  little  digression,  however.  I  asked  the  Doctor,  I  mean  the  Rev,  Mr. 
Dowie,  to  lay  hands  upon  me  and  bless  me.  I  first  waited  upon  God  to  ask  him 
to  prepare  me  for  so  great  a  favor.  I  made  an  effort  to-day,  and  I  went  into  his 
little  room;  he  laid  hands  upon  me  after  prayer  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus, 
and  I  immediately  walked  about  without  the  aid  of  my  crutches.  I  have  walked 
up  here  to  this  platform  and  about  this  building  without  them,  and  not  only 
have  I  more  strength  in  my  limba,  but  I  have  received  in  all  my  body  and  in  all 
my  spirit  great  comfort.  May  God  bless  the  reverend  gentleman  and  his  dear 
wife.  ["Amen,"  from  the  audience.]  May  God  crown  their  efforts  with  fullness 
and  success. " 

Healing  of  Spinal  Complaint  of  Ten  Years. 

We  again  quote  from  the  verbatim  report:  Mr.  Dowie  said:  "I  have  one 
little  case  here,  a  very  sweet  case,  a  dear  young  lassie  named  May  Jackson,  from 
Sausalito.  She  had  a  spinal  complaint  for  ten  years.  She  had  been  treated  by 
the  doctors  in  a  first-class  surgical  institute  in  San  Francisco.     She  writes: — 

"  *  For  ten  years  I  have  suffered  from  curvature  of  the  spine,  caused  by  lifting. 
On  Lord's  day,  June  26,  I  heard  Mr.  Dowie  for  the  first  time.  I  had  never 
thought  before  of  Jesus  as  my  healer.  The  first  time  I  heard  him  I  felt  sure 
that  Jesus  was  the  healer,  and  that  he  would  strengthen  my  spine.  I  am  con- 
vinced that  if  I  had  perfect  faith  I  would  have  been  perfectly  healed,  but  now 
as  it  is  I  feel  constrained  to  say  that  I  am  almost  so,  and  that  my  spine  is  very 
strong,  and  that  there  is  very  little  of  the  deformity  left,  and  each  day  that  little 
is  passing  away.  I  thank  God  with  all  my  heart  for  his  wonderful  healing  through 
Mr.  Dowie.  I  shall  go  forth  on  my  mission  to  China,  not  only  with  the  blessed 
gospel  that  Jesus  is  the  Saviour,  but  that  he  is  also  the  Healer  of  China's  millions. 
Thank  you,  dear  Mr.  Dowie,  for  your  great  help  to  me.'" 

This  young  lady  stood  up  and  confirmed  her  written  testimony,  saying:  **I 
thank  God  with  all  my  heart  for  his  great  goodness,  and  Mr.  Dowie  for  helping 
me  to  believe  in  him  as  my  healer." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  **  If  you  would  just  study  that  sweet  brevity,  you  would  be 
a  better  preacher  than  I  am. " 

Many  Healings  of  Diseases  of  Women. 

A  number  of  ladies  who  had  been  healed  of  internal  troubles  which  could  not 
be  detailed,  then  rose  upon  the  platform,  and  in  various  parts  of  the  building,  who 
testified  to  their  healing.  One  lady  came  forward  and  said:  "  I  would  like  to  say 
a  word  or  two." 

Healed  of  Hemorrhage  of  the  Stomach. 

"  I  came  here  from  Michigan,  a  year  ago  to  seek  my  health  in  California;  I 
was  in  very  poor  health.  I  saw  in  one  of  the  San  Francisco  papers  a  notice  of  this 
meeting  here,  and  I  cut  it  out,  and  although  it  was  my  intention  to  come  to  this 
city  during  the  summer,  I  hastened  my  visit  so  as  to  get  here  to  these  meetings; 
I  came  from  the  mountains  a  week  sooner  than  I  expected  to  come;  I  did  not  get 
here  until  three  days  after  it  commenced.  I  thank  God  I  heard  the  Doctor,  I  had 
suffered  fourteen  years  off  and  on,  and  I  thought  it  was  God's  hand  afflicting  me 
to  draw  me  nearer  to  Christ,  but  I  have  given  that  up  in  these  meetings,  and  con- 


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sedrated  my  body  entirely  to  him.  I  think  I  shall  never  take  medicine  again.  I 
thank  God  for  it;  that  he  brought  me  from  Michigan  to  this  State.  Last  Friday 
I  entered  the  healing  room.  I  got  the  evidence  before  that,  that  I  would  be 
healed.  I  said  I  did  not  want  more  than  seven  minutes.  Dr.  Dowie  laid  his 
hands  on  my  head  and  the  glory  came,  not  only  to  my  body,  but  to  my  soul  and 
spirit.  I  feel  to  rejoice  and  I  give  God  all  the  glory.  The  hemorrhage  has  en- 
tirely ceased. " 

A  Mind-Healer  Restored  to  God. 

We  then  read  a  letter  from  a  lady  who  had  been  led  astray  through  investi- 
gating metaphysical  science.  She  had  left  her  church  and  Sabbath-school,  and 
all  the  rest,  seeking  that  as  a  better  way.  She  sent  in  a  petition  early  in  the 
meeting,  and  she  found  restoration  to  God,  spirit,  soul,  and  body,  and  wants  to 
warn  others  of  the  misery  of  going  into  this  ridiculous,  stupid  Christian  science, 
falsely  so  called.  We  then  asked  her  if  this  was  so,  and  Mrs.  Willett,  of  J  521 
Pine  Street,  San  Francisco,  rose  up  and  confirmed  what  we  had  stated,  adding 
earnest  words  concerning  it,  thanking  God  for  her  restoration  from  her  back- 
slidden condition. 

Fifty  Witnesses  to  Divine  Healing- 

Before  calling  upon  the  last  brother  to  testify,  we  rapidly  glanced  through  a 
number  of  written  testimonials  to  healing  which  had  reached  us  that  day,  more 
than  thirty  in  number,  but  said  as  the  hour  was  very  late  we  would  read  no  more, 
and  we  would  only  ask  all  present  who  had  been  healed  through  faith  in  Jesus 
during  this  mission  to  rise.  In  response  over  fifty  persons  rose.  In  answer  to 
another  request  many  more  rose  who  had  been  healed  through  faith  at  other  times. 

Many  "Witnesses  to  Salvation  and  Blessing. 

A  large  number  of  those  who  had  been  saved  during  the  mission,  then  stood  up, 
in  response  to  our  invitation.  Many  of  them  were  very  interesting  and  striking 
cases.  In  answer  to  another  invitation  to  all  Christians  who  had  received  spirit- 
ual blessing  and  help  in  the  mission,  more  than  six  hundred  persons  stood  to  their 
feet. 

We  read  a  letter  from  Rev.  Dr.  Lane,  which  we  have  referred  to,  and  thanked 
a  number  of  the  ministerial  brethren  present,  especially  the  Rev.  Mr.  Arnold,  for 
their  help  in  connection  with  the  after  meetings.  A  brother  minister  then 
rose  and  testified  to  his  healing,  and  after  this  Mrs.  Dowie  delivered  the  closing 
address.     Again  we  quote  from  the  verbatim  report. 

Mrs.  Dowie' s  Closing  Remarks. 

**  Mrs.  Dowie  said:  'lam  sure  we  are  all  very  much  gratified  to  hear  the 
testimonies.  The  Lord  always  sends  somebody  to  testify  of  His  healing  power  at 
the  close  of  a  mission.  We  have  never  seen  a  mission  yet,  even  though  that 
mission  had  been  held  only  for  a  few  da3'^s,  but  we  have  seen  the  healing.  We 
always  see  the  Lord's  work  as  healer  everywhere  and  at  all  times. 

'*  I  remember  when  we  began  this  mission  and  we  told  you  about  these 
wonderful  things,  such  as  those  about  people  rising  up  in  the  meetings  and  telling 
us  they  were  healed  while  they  were  sitting  there,  that  some  of  you  looked  in- 
credulous, some  of  you  almost  doubted  what  we  were  saying.  But  you  have 
come  here  night  after  night,  and  you  have  seen  the  things  we  talked  about;  you 
have  seen  the  blind  receive  their  sight  and  the  lame  walk,  and  the  deaf  hear,  and 
those  who  have  been  healed  of  dreadful  diseases  of  every  description. 

"We  might  have  seen  more  blessing  than  we  have  seen  if  the  people  had  been 
more  faithful;  but  it  has  been  a  new  teaching  to  many  of  you.  Still  I  think  as  far 
as  we  can  see,  the  results  have  been  very  gratifying.  I  am  very  thankful  to  God 
indeed  for  what  he  has  done.  We  look  upon  this  as  just  the  beginning,  and  not 
as  the  end;  that  this  teaching  will  go  throughout  these  wide  lands  upon  this  great 
continent.  Wherever  we  go  we  will  carry  it  with  us;  we  will  teach  the  Lord  Jesus 
is  the  same  yesterday,  to-day  and  forever;  that  He  is  with  us  at  the  present  time, 
and  that  He  heals  all  those  who  come  to  liim  in  simple  faith  and  love.  Oh!  it  is 
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a  beautiful  thought  to  see  how  Jesus  teaches  us,  that  as  a  sparrow  cannot  fall  to 
the  ground  without  his  care,  we  know  that  our  bodies  are  cared  for  by  him,  and 
that  by  his  Holy  Spirit  he  will  heal  and  keep  us  and  fill  us  with  his  power,  I 
do  long  for  the  time  when  his  people  will  teach  it  in  all  the  lands;  when  little 
children  will  nos  be  taken  to  the  doctors  and  given  drugs;  and  when  they  will  be 
brought  to  the  great  Healer  for  all  their  sicknesses  and  diseases.  Our  Lord  Jesus 
when  in  the  flesh  went  about  healing  the  sick  and  casting  out  devils,  and  all 
who  believe  in  him  received  healing  from  him.  As  that  dear  brother  said  this 
evening,  it  is  the  teaching  that  is  wanted;  Mr.  Bowie  lays  great  stress  upon  this; 
we  spend  the  greater  portion  of  our  time  in  all  these  missions  in  teaching.  Jesus 
went  about  teaching  and  preaching,  and  tlien  came  the  healing  to  those  who  be- 
lieved in  him. 

In  this  mission  the  people  have  listened  to  the  teaching  and  have  received  it. 
"Faith  cometh  by  hearing,  and  hearing  by  the  word  of  God,"  and  then  they  have 
been  healed  and  blessed. 

We  have  not  heard  of  all  the  blessing  that  has  been  received  here;  many 
who  were  healed  have  returned  to  their  homes  ia  various  parts  of  this  State. 
We  could  not  expect  to  hear  all  in  one  night.  Mr.  Dowie  has  been  unable  to 
read  one-half  of  the  testimonies.  But  God  has  greatly  blessed  his  people,  and  he 
will  carry  the  glorious  tidings  forward  that  Jesus  is  our  Saviour  from  diseases  as 
well  as  from  sin.  Oh,  rejoice  in  his  goodness  and  power!  We  do  not  lake  any 
credit  or  glory  to  ourselves;  if  we  did  that  we  would  not  have  received  the  bless- 
ing; of  ourselves  we  feel  empty  and  powerless,  but  when  we  consecrate  ourselves 
to  him  the  power  comes,  and  his  Holy  Spirit  manifests  itself  upon  the  hearts  of 
the  people,  and  wherever  this  teaching  goes  his  Spirit  instructs  the  people,  and 
he  answers  confirming  our  words  by  signs  and  wonders  and  mighty  works. 

We  then  rose  and  said,  "Now  do  not  go  away  without  giving  God  the  glory 
in  the  beautiful  Doxology.  It  is  not  *  Praise  God  from  whom  all  sickness  flows,' 
but  let  us  stand  and  sing  'Praise  God  from  whom  all  blessings  flow.'" 

The  benediction  was  then  pronounced,  and  the  mission  closed. 

[Extract  from  "  Leaves  of  Healing  "  for  October,  1888,  pp.  105-118.] 

Record  of  the  Mission  in  Oakland. 

On  the  evening  of  Friday,  13th  July,  we  met  in  the  parlors  of  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  on  Broadway  nearly  two  hundred  and  fifty  repre- 
sentatives of  evangelical  churches  in  and  around  Oakland.  The  meeting  over- 
flowed the  parlors  of  the  Association  into  the  larger  hall,  and  there  we  spent  a 
very  enjoyable  evening.  Twenty  thousand  programs  and  tracts  announcing 
the  mission  were  placed  in  the  hands  of  friends  for  distribution,  and  there  was  a 
very  general  expression  of  confidence  that,  notwithstanding  many  difficulties  in 
our  way,  the  mission  would  be  abundantly  successful;  and  it  was.  It  was  also 
proved  that  the  difficulties  had  been  by  no  means  exaggerated,  for  in  no  place  and 
at  no  time  have  we  ever  been  assailed  with  more  desperate  falsehoods,  misrep- 
resentations and  pure  (or  rather,  impure)  inventions  of  the  press.  There  was 
also  very  considerable  opposition  on  the  part  of  the  pulpit,  and  many  sermons 
were  preached  at  us  by  brethren  who,  it  is  very  generally  believed,  now  regret 
their  utterances,  for  the  most  part.  Still  the  opposition  was  steadily  beaten  down 
and  the  mission  grew  daily  in  power,  until  when  it  closed  there  was  but  on  a 
opinion  even  upon  the  part  of  our  fiercest  opponents,  namely,  that  we  had  con- 
quered. But  we  know  well  who  conquered;  it  was  Him  to  whom  we  have  ever 
given  the  glory,  and  who  has  promised  us  the  victory.  To  Him  be  all  the  praise, 
from  whom  is  all  power.  We  are  more  determined  than  ever  to  press  forward 
wherever  He  directs  us. 

"  Where  my  Captain  bids  me  go, 
'  Tis  not  mine  to  murmur  *  No;' 

He  that  gives  the  sword  and  shield 

Chooseth  too  the  battle-field. 

"Every  battle  I  shall  win, 
Triumph  over  every  sin. 
'  What,'  you  say,  'a  victor  be?' 
Nay!  not  1,  but  Christ  in  me." 


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On  the  afternoon  and  evening  of  Monday,  July  16,  we 

Opened  the  Mission  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church, 

AVhere  we  continued  it  until  Monday,  July  30.  The  church  is  one  of  the 
largest  and  handsomest  in  the  city,  and  with  its  spacious  galleries  and  broad 
ground  floor,  it  seats  comfortably  one  thousand  three  hundred  persons.  The 
afternoon  audiences  grew  steadily  until  the  ground  floor  was  fairly  filled,  and  on 
the  evening  of  our  closing  meeting  every  part  of  the  building  was  seated. 

It  would  be  impossible  to  give  in  detail  the  many  incidents  which  render  this 
mission  memorable.  From  the  very  first  it  was  apparent  that  one  portion  of  the 
Oakland  press  was  determined  to  pervert  our  words  and  bring  us  into  contempt 
with  its  readers.  Tne  Oakland  Evening  Tribune  smuggled  one  of  its  representatives 
without  invitation  into  our  private  preliminary  gathering  of  friends  on  the  Fri- 
day evening  previous  to  the  beginning  of  the  mission.  On  the  following  evening, 
we  were  astonished  to  see  what  purported  to  be  a  report  of  the  proceedings- 
which  we  had  especially  asked  of  all  present  should  be  considered  as  purely  'pri- 
vate^ thft  meeting  having  been  convened  by  private  circulars  only.  In  the  re- 
Ziovi  ot  my  speech  I  was  made  to  say  numbers  of  most  absurd  statements  concern, 
»ng  my  private  life,  and  amongst  other  things  I  was  said  to  have  made  an  open 
confesion  that  for  "twenty-six  years  I  had  been  a  victim  to  the  filthy  vice  of  to- 
bacco smoking;"  and  also  that  I  had  once  opposed  Roman  Catholicism,  but  I  had 
learned  better  and  didn't  do  it  now.  I  complained  of  these  misrepresentations 
to  the  reporter  representing  that  journal,  and  he  assured  me  then  and  on  two 
subsequent  occasions,  that  his  report  had  been  garbled  and  altered  in  the  office. 
At  last  I  saw  that  this  paper  was  making  no  mistakes  concerning  me,  but 
that  it  was  deliberately  lying  on  purpose,  and  I  said  so  publicly,  at  the  same 
time  declaring  my  intention  of  taking  no  further  notice  either  of  it  or  of  any 
other  newspaper  attacks  upon  me,  from  whatever  source  proceeding.  This 
policy  we  have  pursued  undeviatingly  nntil  this  present  moment  so  far  as  our 
public  writing  is  concerned,  and  so  far  as  my  public  speaking,  also.  As  in  all  our 
Missions,  we  first  of  all  presented  Christ  as  Saviour,  and  we  had  the  joy  of  seeing 
numbers  saved  almost  daily,  and  on  one  occasion  no  less  than  seventy  persons 
under  deep  conviction  rose  from  their  seats,  and  came  up  to  the  platform  at 
the  after  meeting  seeking  for  blessing.  There  are  many  touching  stories  con- 
nected with  these  saved  and  restored  ones  in  our  missions  already,  which  if  told 
would  fill  a  fair  sized  volume,  but  we  cannot  enter  into  details,  for  which 
neither  our  time  nor  these  pages  are  sufficient;  and,  therefore,  we  shall  hasten 
now,  as  in  our  previous  letter,  to 

The  Closing  Praise  and  Testimony  Meeting, 

Which,  as  will  be  remembered,  was  held  on  the  evening  of  Monday,  July  30, 
when  the  spacious  church  was  filled  with  an  eager,  earnest  throng,  who  listened 
with  intense  feeling  and  deepening  earnestness  to  the  testimonies  which  came 
from  the  loving  hearts  of  those  who  had  "touched  the  hem  of  Christ's  garment"  and 
been  healed.  The  same  gentleman  who  reported  verbatim  the  San  Franciscan 
closing  meeting,  Mr.  G.  H.  Hawes,  again  reported  this  meeting. 

Before  the  public  testimonies  were  given  we  had  a  most  interesting  meeting 
with  those  who  were  about  to  witness  to  Christ's  power  to  heal,  and  when  they 
•entered  the  building  with  us  we  met  a  sea  of  upturned  faces,  and  we  felt  indeed 
that  grace  was  needed  to  those  who  were  about  to  speak  for  the  first  time 
before  such  an  audience.  After  the  preliminaries  and  an  address  from  our- 
selves, we  first  of  all  read  a  number  of  testimonies  from  those  who  had  been 
liealed  without  human  touch. 

Thirty  Years'  Infirmity  Healed  without  Human  Touch. 

Mrs.  Parthena  Balkam,  of  West  Berkeley,  wrote,  saying,  "I  was  blessed  on 
last  Thursday;  my  hip  is  altogether  healed.  Please  pray  for  me  that  I  be  kept. 
The  swelling  of  my  limbs  and  ankles  has  almost  gone;  my  hip  is  altogether  healed. 
My  troubles  have  lasted  for  many  years*  my  feet  and  ankles  for  thirty  years 
have  pained  me  all  the  time,  and  my  hip  trouble  is  of  many  years'  standing.     My 


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husband,  whom  you  prayed  for,  is  better,  and  is  holding  on  by  faith  alone  for  hia 
restoration.  I  am  seventy-five,  and  my  husband  is  about  the  same  age.  I  vraa 
made  well  without  any  human  touch." 

Mrs.  Heath  rose  and  said  that  she  knew  this  lady,  and  knew  her  condition, 
and  was  able  to  testify  that  she  had  been  most  miraculously  healed.  She  was 
also  able  to  testify  that  she  was  in  the  meeting  with  her  when  she  received  the 
healing. 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  Long-Standing  Lameness  without 
Human  Touch. 

"We  then  read  a  letter  from  Mrs.  J.  J.  Cook,  wife  of  the  proprietor  of  the 
Stoneman  House,  in  the  world-famous  Yo  Semite  Valley,  in  which  she  thanked 
God  for  the  blessings  which  she  had  received  through  our  teachings  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  wanted  also  to  thank  God  on  behalf  of  her  sister.  She  said:  "  I  went 
into  my  room  and  in  earnest  prayer  to  God  I  asked  him  to  take  the  trouble  from 
her.  She  had  been  a  long  time  lame  and  in  much  pain.  Befpre  I  could  go  down- 
stairs word  came  for  me  to  go  to  her, telling  me  that  suddenly  she  had  been  enabled 
to  walk  without  lameness,  and  could  stand  erect.  She  had  been  bowed  down 
from  suffering  for  a  long  time.  I  went  with  joy  and  told  her  to  give  the  glory  to 
God.  She  wept  for  joy;  the  now  continues  walking  with  no  lameness.  I  hear 
from  her  often,  and  she  is  as  well  as  when  she  left  me. " 

We  then  pointed  out  in  this  case  that  the  healing  had  been  given  without  any 
intervention  on  our  part,  and  we  had  never  seen  nor  known  this  lady's  sister,  who 
had  thus  been  so  miraculously  healed. 

Healing  of  Many  Years'   Affliction  without  Human  Touch. 

Mr.  A.  T.  Farish,  1380  Ninth  Ave.,  E.  Oakland,  writes  :— 

*'  I  want  to  thank  you.  When  holding  your  meetings  in  San  Francisco  I 
was  not  able  to  attend,  as  I  am  now  seventy-eight  years  of  age.  I  have  been  a 
member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  for  forty  years.  I  attended  your  meeting  in 
Oakland  for  teaching,  and  I  praise  the  Lord,  and  I  want  now  to  give  him  all  the 
glory  that  the  prayers  that  were  offered  have  been  answered,  and  that  now  I  am 
healed  of  all  my  diseases;  and  I  now  ask  your  prayers  and  those  of  other  Chris- 
tians that  my  healing  may  be  kept  perfect." 

This  dear  old  Christian  gentleman  then  continued  to  tell  us  of  his  eight  chil- 
dren, twenty-five  grandchildren  and  two  great  grandchildren;  all  of  whom  he 
asked  us  to  pray  for.  He  mourns  that  one  of  his  grandchildren  smokes,  and  asks 
us  to  especially  beseech  the  Lord  that  he  may  have  power  to  give  it  up. 

After  these  cases,  we  read  the  written  testimonies  of  persons  then  present  who 
were  desirous  of  publicly  witnessing  for  Christ,  and,  after  such  readings,  they 
stood  up  and  added  certain  words  of  confirmation.  The  first  of  these  was  that  of 
one  who  had  been 

Instantaneously  Healed  of  Severe  Sprains  of  Both  Ankles 
and  of  a  Severely  Injured  Arm. 

Mrs.  H.  P.  Penniman,  of  Piedmont  Ave.,  Oakland,  wrote:  "Nine  months 
ago  I  fell  and  badly  hurt  my  arm,  making  me  nearly  helpless.  Five  weeks  ago  1 
fell  again  and  sprained  both  my  ankles.  I  suffered  the  pain  and  inconvenience, 
known  to  those  who  have  suffered  likewise.  Dr.  Dowie  prayed  with  me  last 
Thursday  morning.  Having  long  been  a  believer  in  divine  healing  and  a  student 
of  its  principles  as  revealed  in  God's  word,  I  only  needed  my  faith,  not  my  knowl- 
edge, to  be  increased.  God  gave  me  that,  upon  expression  of  which,  after  prayer. 
Dr.  Dowie  bade  me  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus,  and  in  the  power  of  the  Spirit, 
to  walk,  which  I  did  naturally  and  at  once.  It  was  in  a  moment,  I  may  say. 
In  a  few  minutes  I  put  on  my  boots,  and  within  one  hour  was  on  my  way  to  this 
church.  At  the  same  moment  my  left  arm  was  also  healed.  I  give  this  testimony 
in  obedience  to  the  command,  "Go  and  tell  what  great  things  the  Lord  has  done 
for  thee."     ("Glory  to  God  !  "  from  the  audience. ) 

We  explained  a  little  more  fully  the  case  of  this  sister,  who  is  a  highly  culti- 


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vated  and  widely  known  Christian  lady,  and  sister  of  Mrs.  Capt.  Gove,  to  whom 
reference  has  been  already  made.  We  had  accepted  ai  invitation  to  breakfast 
■with  Capt.  Gove  and  his  family  on  the  previous  Thursday  morning,  and  found 
tJiat  Mrs.  Penniman  was  in  a  very  helpless  aid  painful  condition.  She  had  been 
compelled  for  some  time  to  creep  about  her  room  on  her  hands  and  knees,  and  was 
unable  even  to  use  crutches,  as  she  could  not  bear  to  have  her  feet  touch  the 
ground,  from  the  extreme  pain.  We  said  to  her,  "  Jesus  is  speaking  to  you  now, 
speaking  through  my  lips  as  his  servant,  and  he  is  asking  you  a  question,  *  Wilt 
thou  be  made  vhole  i '  "  She  said  afterwards  in  this  building,  on  the  same  after- 
noon as  that  on  which  she  was  htaled,  that  when  we  put  that  question  to  her  she 
lost  sight  of  us,  and  took  it  as  a  direct  question  from  the  L^rd  himself.  We 
noticed  her  lips  move;  her  eyes  were  shut,  and  at  last  we  heard  her  say,  "Yes, 
Lord,"  as  if  slie  was  speaking  to  the  Lord  himself.  We  said  to  her,  "Give  me 
your  feet."  She  said,  "Take  them,  Lord,  take  them  !  "  We  immediately  took 
her  feet  in  our  hands,  in  Jesus'  name.  They  were  much  swollen,  and  we  laid 
hands  upon  them,  beseeching  the  Lord  that  she  might  at  once  be  healed.  In  less 
time  than  it  takes  us  to  tell  you  she  was  able  to  walk;  she  walked  upstairs  in  a 
few  minutes,  dressed  lierself,  put  on  her  boots,  presided  at  the  lunch  table, 
walked  upstairs,  came  down  again,  dressed  for  the  meeting,  walked  out  with  us 
to  the  carriage,  i'lto  which  she  stepped  without  any  assistance,  and  drove  with  us 
to  the  church,  where  she  testified  to  her  healing  before  several  hundreds  of  per- 
sons at  the  afternoon  meeting.  As  it  had  been  well  known  by  large  numbers  of 
persons  that  this  lady  had  expressed  a  deep  interest  in  our  mission,  and  was  quite 
unable  to  attend  the  meetings  on  account  of  her  serious  injuries,  it  created  a  vety 
widespread  interest,  and  even  a  sensation,  and  was  an  instantaneous  and  per- 
fect healing  of  a  very  marked  character. 

Almost  Instantaneous  Healing  of  a  Little  G-irl's  Injured  Eye. 

Julia  Mills,  a  sweet  little  child  about  ten  years  old,  placed  her  written  testi- 
mony in  our  hands  as  follows: — 

"I  was  hit  in  the  eye  by  a  rock  which  a  boy  threw  with  a  sling-shot.  I  had  been 
totally  blind,  but  the  Lord  made  them  some  better,  although  I  was  not  at  all 
well,  for  I  could  not  bear  my  glasses  off  in  the  light,  and  my  sight  was  very  bad. 
But  last  Saturday  I  came  into  the  Children's  Meeting  and  you  invited  me  with 
other  children  that  were  seeking  healing  into  the  parlor,  and  laid  hands  upon 
me,  and  God  has  healed  my  eyes. "  • 

Some  of  her  friends  who  were  present  testified  that  the  eyes  were  very  much 
injured  and  are  perfectly  restored.  We  have  seen  this  little  girl  as  late  as  Octo- 
ber 20,  and  her  eyes  were  perfectly  well  and  her  sight  quite  clear. 

Restoration  of  One  Who  Suffered  with  Imperfect  Eyesight 
for  Many  Years. 

John  Ashworth,  160  Broadway,  Oakland,  wrote:  "Through  your  teaching  I 
have  found  my  Saviour  for  all  eternity,  and  I  have  found  my  Saviour  is  also  my 
Healer.  For  fourteen  years  I  wore  glasses;  have  had  very  weak  eyes,  and  in  fact 
so  weak  that  I  was  almost  blind;  nobody  was  able  to  do  anything,  and  my  eye- 
sight these  last  few  years  gradually  grew  worse.  I  came  to  the  meeting  and  on 
the  afternoon  of  July  18  I  asked  you  to  pray  for  me;  I  received  a  blessing  that 
afterjoon,  for  I  rested  in  Jesus  that  very  day  for  salvation,  and  day  by  day  my 
ey  3S  have  been  getting  stronger.  I  can  read  my  Testament  without  any  glasses; 
I  feel  stronger  and  happier  in  my  mind,  and  new  life,  in  fact,  has  come  to  me.  I 
give  all  the  praise  to  God.  In  conclusion,  1  pray  God  that  I  may  have  more 
faith  in  Jesus.  This  is  the  only  letter  in  my  life  that  I  have  written  with  my 
natural  eyes.     The  Lord  increase  my  faith,  and  he  "shall  have  all  the  parise." 

The  letter  referred  to  is  an  exceedingly  good,  well-M'^ritten  letter;  every  word 
in  it  is  well  formed  and  apparently  easily  written.  Since  then  we  received,  at 
San  Jose,  another  letter  from  this  young  man,  telling  us  that  his  healing  had  re- 
mained, and  that  he  was  doing  everything  without  glasses.  The  young  man  him- 
self stood  up  in  the  meeting  and  added  to  his  written  testimony  these  words:  "  It 
is  the  first  time  in  my  life  that  I  have  stood  up  in  a  church  to  speak,  bat  what  I 
have  to  say  is  that  I  glorify  God." 


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Instantaneous  Healing  of   Heart  Disease  without  Human 

Touch. 

Mrs.  S.  Ransome,  No.  9  Fourteenth  St.,  Oakland,  wrote:"  I  desire  to  tes- 
tify to  you,  and  to  the  Lord,  tTiat  without  a  touch  from  your  hand  I  am  healed  of 
palpitation  and  of  heart  disease,  which  I  have  had  a  long  time.  On  Tuesday  after 
your  prayers  for  the  many  petitions,  I  thought  I  must  cry  out  for  I  had  such  a 
strange  sensation  at  my  heart,  as  if  my  heart  "v^s  turning  over  in  me,  and  all  at 
once  it  seemed  as  if  it  had  stopped.  Then  I  knew  that  Jesus  had  healed  me,  for 
I  came  home  better  than  I  have  done  for  a  long  time.  I  now  give  thanks  to  my 
blessed  Jesus  for  his  loving-kindness  to  me.     I  am  willing  to  testify  for  him." 

We  said  with  reference  to  this  case,  "  We  did  not  know  of  this  healing  until 
she  brought  us  this  letter.  We  will  ask  the  lady  if  she  is  present  to  rise  and  con- 
firm her  testimony."  She  at  once  rose  and  did  so,  saying  :  "I  am  the  lady,  and 
can  truly  say  that  I  have  been  a  long  time  suffering  from  heart  disease  ;  it  was 
very  troublesome;  in  walking  up  a  flight  of  stairs  or  a  block  I  was  so  fatigued  1 
wouldn't  know  what  to  do.  I  got  worse.  I  came  in  last  week  and  sat  in  a  seat 
over  there.  While  the  gentleman  was  praying  I  prayed  to  God  that  if  my  heart 
was  not  right,  it  might  be  put  right,  for  I  knew  there  was  something  wrong 
about  it ;  it  troubled  me  a  great  deal  at  times,  and  I  could  not  sleep.  All  at 
once  I  felt  a  sensation  as  if  my  heart  was  moved  and  turned  into  its  place, 
and  I  thought  I  must  cry  out  for  help,  but  all  at  once  it  stopped.  I  gave  God  the 
glory,  for  Mr.  Bowie  never  put  his  hands  on  me.  I  walked  home  at  11  o'clock 
and  never  slept  better.  I  praise  the  Lord  for  his  goodness  towards  me.  I  hav^e 
been  healed  ever  since." 

Restoration  of  Healing  of  One  Who  Had    Been  Totally  Deaf 
in  Right  Ear  for  Eight  Years. 

Mr.  A.  F.  Rudens,  11  Telegraph  Place,  San  Francisco,  said:  "Christian  friends, 
I  desire  to  be  a  witness  for  Christ;  I  feel  to  glorify  him;  he  has  been  my  Saviour 
for  three  years.  I  have  also  known  him  to  be  my  Healer  for  one  year.  But  I 
have  been  deaf  in  my  right  ear  for  a  little  over  eight  years.  I  have  tried  doctors, 
different  kinds  of  doctors ;  I  tried  four  doctors  to  open  my  ear,  but  all  in  vain. 
On  the  10th  of  July,  by  the  mercy  of  God,  I  was  led  to  Brother  Dowie's  rooms  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  and  there  he  prayed  for  me  and  laid  his  hands  on  me,  and  there  I 
got  hearing  in  the  right  ear  for  the  first  time  that  I  can  remember  for  eight  years; 
I  could  close  my  left  ear  and  hear  quite  good,  and  I  can  do  so  now.  ("Thank 
God! "from  many  in  the  audience.) 

Healing  of  Hip  Disease  of  Ten  Years'  Standing. 

Miss  Josie  Colienour,  1663  San  Pablo  Ave.,  Oakland,  v/rote :  "I  want  to 
testify  to  the  praise  of  our  Lord  Jesus  for  my  healing.  I  have  had  hip  disease 
ever  since  I  was  seven  years  old;  at  times  the  suffering  was  very  great.  On 
July  19  I  went  to  Mr.  i)owie  ;  he  laid  hands  upon  me,  and  since  then  I  have 
had  no  pain,  and  I  can  use  my  limb." 

This  young  lady,  who  is  seventeen  years  of  age,  rose  and  said  :  "I  wish  to 
say  that  every  word  of  that  is  true,  and  I  do  realize  that  I  am  perfectly  healed. 
I  give  God  all  the  glory. " 

Confirmation  of  Previous  Testimony. 

Miss  Wilcox,  who  testified  in  the  San  Francisco  Mission,  desired  to  witness 
for  Christ  again  in  this  mission.  She  said:  "  I  suffered  for  twenty-eight  years 
with  my  ankle,  and  thirteen  years  with  internal  trouble  ;  I  am  testifying  for 
Christ  that  he  is  not  only  my  healer,  but  my  Saviour  also.  I  have  been  four 
years  disabled,  for  one  year  most  of  the  time  in  bed,  three  years  the  30th  of  this 
month  on  crutches.  On  the  2d  of  July  I  received  healing.  I  have  been  for  tliir- 
teen  years  afflicted  with  internal  diseases  which  were  very  painful,  very  great,  dis- 
abling me  for  work  or  household  duties  of  any  kind.  I  give  God  all  the  glory,  I 
am  healed,  and  I  feel  better  to-day  than  ever  I  felt  in  my  life  ;  I  can't  remember 
when  I  ever  felt  as  I  do  to-day.'' 


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We  remarked  that  this  girl  had  been  seen  by  many  in  San  Francisco  at  the 
moment  of  her  healing.  She  came  right  up  to  the  platform  on  her  two  crutches, 
and  in  pain  and  grief  she  sought  mercy  from  God.  She  could  not  kneel;  she 
put  down  her  crutches  on  the  platform  and  wept  and  cried  before  God.  But 
presently  the  power  of  God  came  upon  her;  she  not  only  found  salvation,  but  to 
her  astonishment  she  was  put  on  her  feet,  and  walked  back  to  her  seat,  leaving 
her  crutches  upon  the  platform.     She  says  she  has  been  well  ever  since. 

Hea  1  ing  of  Epilepsy  of  Many  Ye  ars '  Standing. 

We  said  :  *'  We  feel  it  unwise  for  certain  reasons  to  give  the  name  and  ad- 
dress of  the  lady  a  portion  of  whose  testimony  we  shall  now  read.  It  is  wrtten 
in  an  exceedingly  beautiful  hand,  but,  for  sufficient  reasons,  we  cannot  read  it  in 
detail.  Many  here  will  remember  that  this  lady  one  day  went  into  an  epileptic 
fit  at  one  or  our  afternoon  meetings ;  how  many  of  you  saw  that  ? "  (Many 
hands  were  raised.)  "  It  was  the  case  of  the  lady  to  whom  we  now  refer.  The 
Lord  used  us  on  that  occasion,  and  the  next  moment,  as  you  know,  she  was  able 
to  walk  about;  the  Lord  delivered  her ;  her  mind  was  failing,  but  is  now  per- 
fectly restored  ;  there  is  every  evidence  that  she  is  fully  healed,  and  she  has  re- 
turned to  her  home  in  the  country.  She  says  :  "I  pray  continually  for  wisdom 
to  conduct  myself  rightly  and  to  have  only  a  pure  heart  and  influence.  Last 
night  I  was  specially  blessed  in  prayer  ;  the  Holy  Spirit  was  poured  in  fullness 
into  my  soul ;  I  communed  with  God  ;  God  is  very  near  ;  I  feel  his  presence  ever 
with  me.  I  was  moved  to  pray  that  all  who  were  praying  for  me  may  be  blessed 
in  their  own  soul  by  seeing  the  answers  to  their  prayers  for  me,  and  my  heart 
thrills  as  I  remember  the  promise  spoken  in  Prov.  10  :  22.  '  The  blessing  of  the 
Lord  it  maketh  rich  and  he  addeth  no  sorrow  with  it.'  If  there  is  no  sorrow,  of 
course  there  is  no  sickness.  This  morning  my  pastor  asked  me  if  I  was  healed, 
and  I  replied  in  confidencs  inspired  of  God,  *Yes,  I  am  healed.'  Praise  the 
Lord  for  his  mighty  work. " 

The  mother  of  this  young  lady  also  wrote  a  beautiful  letter  thanking  us  for 
our  part  in  her  daughter's  healing. 

Confirmation  of  Previous  Healing. 

Mr.  Jackson,  of  San  Francisco,  who  was  healed  of  rupture  in  that  Mission, 
again  witnessed  to  his  continued  healing,  and  a  great  impression  was  produced 
upon  the  audience  by  its  thrilling  recital,  and  many  exclamations  of  "Glory  to 
God  I "  and  "  Amen  !"  were  heard  on  every  side.  The  young  man  spoke  with 
eloquence  and  force,  and  is  likely  to  become  a  Christian  minister. 

Another  Confirmation  of  Previous  Healing. 

Miss  Laura  M.  Foster,  who  was  healed  of  mental  ailment  in  the  San  Fran- 
cisco Mission,  again  confirmed  her  testimony,  adding  many  touching  details. 
Her  friends  who  were  present  also  confirmed  her  statements.  She  spoke  with 
much  beauty  of  expression,  and  is  perfectly  restored  after  long  mental  darkness. 

Healing  of  a  Minister  from  Dyspepsia  of  Eight  Years',  and 
of  His  Wife  after  Seven  Years'  Sickness- 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Green,  a  pastor  in  Oakland,  spoke  as  follows  :  "  I  want  to 
say  to  the  glory  of  God  that  I  have  been  healed  through  Jesus  a  week  ago  last 
Tuesday  afternoon.  I  came  here  into  the  meeting  and  I  heard  Brother  Dowie  say 
that  Christ  was  not  only  able  but  willing  to  heal.  I  always  knew  he  was  able, 
but  it  always  seemed  as  if  he  was  not  willing  to  heal  me.  I  had  been  a  sufferer 
from  dijspepsia  for  about  eight  years,  and  I  grew  worse  and  worse.  The  last  three 
years  I  could  hardly  fill  my  appointments.  Five  weeks  ago  I  got  very  bad,  so  I 
could  hardly  preach.  Three  weeks  ago  I  called  to  see  a  doctor  in  San  Francisco, 
and  after  he  examined  me  he  said  it  was  not  so  much  dyspepsia  as  consumption,  and 
my  case  was  a  very  severe  one.  He  prescribed  some  medicine;  I  used  that  for  a 
week  and  grew  worse  ;  I  went  to  see  the  doctor  again  and  he  thought  I  was  very 
bad,  and  that  I  had  better  give  up  preacliing.     After  I  attended  the  meeting  here 


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T  went  home,  entered  my  room,  and  kneeled  down  before  God,  and  said:  "O 
Lord,  I  know  that  thou  art  able  to  heal  me,  thou  art  willing  to  heal  me  now. " 
I  put  my  whole  trust  at  that  moment  in  Jesus,  and  there  and  then  I  was  healed 
and  I  stand  here  in  perfect  health  to  night.  I  give  all  the  glory  to  Jesus. 
("Amen  !  "  and  "  Thank  God  !  "  from  the  audience.) 

Let  me  say  also  that  Mrs.  Green,  my  wife,  has  been  sickly  for  seven  years. 
We  have  been  having  a  good  many  doctors,  and  it  seemed  as  if  they  could  not  do 
very  much  good ;  the  last  physician  we  had  told  her  she  had  not  better  take  much 
more  medicine.  She  attended  the  meeting  here  and  last  Saturday  afternoon 
when  she  came  home  she  exclaimed  to  me,  'Praise  God,  I  am  healed  ;  Jesus  has 
healed  me.'  She  is  in  the  meeting  to-night  and  she  wanted  me  to  testify  for  her 
and  to  give  all  the  glory  to  Jesus."     ("Amen  !  "  and  "  Thank  God  !  "  from  many.) 

Interruption  by  an  Epileptic,  "Who  "Was  Instantly  Delivered. 

At  this  point  the  meeting  was  suddenly  interrupted  by  an  epileptic  who 
screamed  out.  We  gave  out  the  hymn,  "  Wonderful  Words  of  Life, "  and  hurried 
from  the  platform  to  the  possessed  one,  who  was  struggling  in  a  fearful  fit,  and 
was  instantly  delivered.  In  a  letter  which  we  received  at  San  Jose  from  Rev. 
Mr.  Coplin,  we  find  that  after  her  deliverance,  and  on  that  same  evening,  she  tvas 
converted,  and  continues  healed. 

At  this  point  the  He  v.  H.  L.  Harris  stepped  up  with  a  petition  for  prayer  on 
his  own  behalf,  which  was  at  once  offered. 

Healing  of  Internal  Maladies  of  Fifteen  Years' Standing. 

Mrs.  R.  A.  Scott,  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  rose  and  testified  that  she 
had  been  healed,  through  our  instrumentality,  of  troubles  of  a  very  serious  char- 
acter which  had  afflicted  her  for  more  than  fifteen  years.  This  is  a  case  which 
we  cannot  attempt  to  give  in  detail. 

Healing  of  Eczema  from  Birth  in  a  Little  Boy- 
Mrs.  Stacy,  717  Eighteenth  St.,  Oakland,  said:  "I  give  God  the  glory  for 
what  he  has  done  through  his  Son,  Jesus  Christ,  for  our  little  boy,  Charles  I).  Stacy, 
who  had  eczema  from  infancy.  I  have  tried  everything  in  the  way  of  washes  and 
ointment,  but  have  never  been  able  to  remove  it  from  his  head.  Brother  Dowie 
prayed  for  him  nearly  two  weeks  ago  and  laid  hands  on  him  in  the  early  part  of 
the  meeting.  He  also  had  a  rash  on  his  hands  and  all  over  his  body,  and  that 
went  away  after  laying  on  of  hands.     I  feel  to  praise  the  Lord." 

Healing  of  Five  Years'  Internal  Troubles. 

Mrs.  Margarita  Johnson,  1038  Twenty-fourth  St.,  Oakland,  next  testified: 
"I  thank  (Jod  for  having  healed  me.  I  have  been  sick  for  five  years,,  and  have 
seen  ten  doctors.  For  three  months  lately  my  back  ached  very  bad  and  troubled 
me  very  much  ;  I  could  hardly  sleep ;  I  grew  worse  and  worse  ;  the  doctor  gave  me 
some  medicine,  I  grew  worse  still  and  I  went  to  see  him  again  ;  he  gave  me 
another  medicine  and  I  grew  worse,  I  was  not  able  to  raise  my  hand  to  my  head. 
I  came  here  to  listen  to  the  speaking  of  Divine  Healing.  Mr.  Dowie  said  the  Lord 
did  not  want  us  to  be  sick,  but  he  would  rather  have  us  be  well.  He  laid  his 
hands  upon  me  and  I  felt  a  great  deal  better.  But  after  a  few  days  I  got  wrong 
and  worse  again.  So  I  went  to  the  Lord  again  and  I  got  right,  and  I  asked  Him 
to  heal  me,  and  he  has  healed  me,  and  I  feel  better  to-night  than  I  ever  did.  I 
give  God  the  glory." 

Healing  of  Chronic  Catarrh  of  Fifteen  Years,  and  of  Inter- 
nal Disease. 

Mrs.  Smith,  of  Fruit  Yale,  near  Oakland,  rose  and  said;  "I  want  to  give 
glory  to  God  for  what  he  has  done  for  me.  I  have  had  chronic  catarrh  in  my 
head  for  over  fifteen  years.  Mr.  Dowie  laid  hands  upon  me  and  I  felt  a  clear- 
ness in  my  head  I  had  not  felt  for  a  long  time.  I  expected  the  Saviour  to  heal  me 


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and  he  did  so.  I  had  also  an  internal  disease  ;  the  doctor  said  he  could  not  do 
anything  for  me ;  medicine  would  do  me  no  good  ;  could  only  give  me  something 
to  relieve  my  sutFerings.  Now  I  praise  Jesus  I  feel  I  am  perfectly  well.  I  give 
the  glory  to  God  ;  he  has  wonderfully  blessed  me  ;  he  is  not  only  the  Saviour  of 
the  soul,  but  the  Healer  of  the  body. " 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  Lameness  of  Many  Years'  Standing. 

Mrs.  A.  Billings,  734  Market  St.,  Oakland,  testified  :  "Glory  to  God  I  am 
healed.  I  have  been  sick  for  many  years,  and  sick  in  bed  lately  for  three  or  four 
months  ;  then  I  was  walking  around  a  little  with  a  cane.  I  believed  that  Jesus 
was  able  and  williig  to  heal  me,  and  he  has.  I  was  healed  this  afternoon  when 
Mr.  Dowie  laid  hands  upon  me  among  the  122  whom  he  laid  hands  upon  to-day. 
I  left  my  cane  at  home.     Glory  to  God  ;  I  am  quite  well." 

This  lady  testified  in  a  clear,  loudi  ringing,  triumphant  voice,  and  was,  as 
she  says,  one  of  a  large  nuniber  upon  whom  we  had  laid  hands  at  one  time  that 
afternoon.  When  she  had  finished  an  aged  gentleman  walked  up  quickly  to  the 
front  from  the  audience  and  said:  "  I  came  up  here  in  company  with  my  wife  ; 
i  was  sick  for  several  years,  and  I,  too,  was  healed  at  the  same  moment  as  my 
wife." 

At  This  Point  There  "Was  G-reat  Excitement 

Throughout  the  vast  audience.  The  old  gentleman  said  there  was  a  minister 
present  who  knew  them,  and  he  openly  applied  to  him  to  confirm  his  testimony. 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Coriander  rose  and  confirmed  the  facts  as  they  had  stated 
them.  These  persona  are  well-known  residents  of  Oakland,  and  their  testi- 
mony, and  appearance  in  confirmation  of  it,  created  most  apparent  excitement 
amongst  the  audience.  After  a  verse  of  "All  hail  the  power  of  Jesus'  name"  the 
meeting  was  calmed,  and  the  testimonies  proceeded. 

*  Healing  of  Rheumatic  Fever. 

Mrs.  A.  J.  Leveritz,  Chase  St.,  San  Francisco,  said:  **I  just  want  to  say  to 
the  glory  of  God  that  during  this  mission  I  have  received  great  blessing  from  God 
physically  and  spiritually.  I  heard  Mr.  Dowie  one  afternoca  last  week.  I  was 
aching  from  the  top  of  my  head  to  the  soles  of  my  feet ;  I  went  into  his  room  ;  I 
had  rheumatic  fever.  He  laid  his  hands  on  me  and  immediately  the  fever  left 
me.  Glory  to  Jesus.  I  can  recommend  this  blessed  Healer;  oh  !  how  precious 
is  his  name." 

Healing  of  a  Little  Boy  from  Eczema- 

Oscar  William  Warner,  of  Mission  St.,  San  Francisco,  was  presented  by  his 
guardian,  who  testified,  as  the  little  boy  did  himself,  that  he  was  healed  of 
eczema.  We  said  to  him,  "  But,  dear,  have  you  given  your  heart  fully  to 
Jesus  ?  " 

"Yes  sir,"  he  said. 

"When?" 

"The  8th  day  of  July,"  said  the  little  boy,  and  the  remark  was  received 
with  hallelujahs  from  the  audience. 

Healing  of  a  Long-Continued  Internal  Trouble. 

Mrs.  Bradford,  23d  St,  Lynn,  East  Oakland,  testified  at  some  length  of  her 
healing,  but  we  are  unable  to  find  time  to  report  her  testimony. 

Mrs.  S.  C.  Fisher  gave  similar  testimony,  but  as  the  hour  was  late  there  was 
not  time  to  read  it. 

Many  Witnesses. 

At  this  stage  of  the  meeting  we  asked  all  who  had  received  healing  during 
the  mission  to  stand  to  thcjir  feet.  A  large  number  did  so,  and  thirty-one  were 
counted  close  to  the  platform  ;  but  it  was  impossible  to  count  all  correctly.  A 
number  who  were  saved  during  the  mission  also  stood  up  afterwards.  About 
seven  hundred  persons  who  had  received  spiritual   blessing  also   stood  up  and 


thanked  God  for  it.  Then  the  usual  request  was  made  that  ^  'all  those  who  in 
this  meeting  have  believed  the  doctrine  which  we  have  been  teaching"  in  Oak- 
land, that  "Jesus  is  a  present  healer,  please  stand  to  your  feet  !"  Almost  the 
whole  audience  did  so,  and  sang  the  Doxology  with  great  fervor. 

The  meeting  closed  at  a  very  late  hour  with  a  very  eloquent  and  touching 
little  address  from  Mrs.  Dowie. 

[Extracts  from  letter  to  "  Leaves  of  Healing  "  for  November,  1888.] 

Record  of  the  Mission  in  San  Jose. 

On  the  evening  of  Friday,  the  third  of  August,  we  met  in  the  parlors  of  the 
First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  several  hundreds  of  Christians  who  had  been 
privately  convened  by  circular.  The  Kev.  F.  F.  Jewell,  D.  D.,  presided  and 
introduced  us.  The  hearty  reception  we  then  received,  convinced  us  that  the 
Lord  would  abundantly  bless  our  labors  in  that  place,  and  so  it  proved. 

On  the  following  Lord's  day  evening,  August  6,  the  mission  was  opened. 
The  spacious  and  convenient  church  was  crowded  in  every  part,  large  numbers  of 
persons  standing  throughout  the  whole  service,  and  many  were  unable  to  obtain 
an  entrance  into  the  building.  Oar  after  meeting  upon  that  occasion  resulted  in 
the  open  conversion  of  a  number  of  persons,  and  we  were  delighted  to  hear  the 
following  day  that  the  infidel  husband  of  a  lady,  who  had  been  instrumental 
largely  in  opening  the  way  for  us,  had  been  conv^erted  in  his  own  house,  and  that 
his  conversion  was  followed  immediately  by  that  of  every  unconverted  member 
of  his  family. 

The  afternoon  meetings  in  the  beautiful  church  parlors,  nearly  as  extensive 
as  the  church  itself,  grew  from  day  to  day  in  power  and  in  numbers  until  they 
overflowed  the  accommodation,  and  also  the  extra  sittings  and  contiguous  rooms, 
and  the  space  around  our  feet  on  the  platform.  We  never  experienced  a  more 
blessed  sense  of  the  power  and  presence  of  the  Spirit  in  any  of  our  Missions 
than  in  these  afternoon  meetings. 

The  evening  audiences  steadily  grew,  filling  the  church  from  the  beginning, 
and  on  many  occasions  crowding  it  to  its  utmost  capacity,  and  occasionally 
beyond.  Conversions  were  of  daily  occurrence,  a  number  of  backsliders  were 
reclaimed,  and  we  have  the  joy  of  knowing  that  many  believers  were  greatly 
revived.  The  meetings  were  attended  by  many  of  the  pastors  and  officers  of 
churches  in  the  city,  and  by  quite  a  number  of  doctors.     A  number  of  the 

Professors  and  Students  of   the  University  of  the  Pacific 

Were  almost  constant  attendants.  Rev.  J.  N.  Martin,  Ph.  D.,  professor  of 
ancient  languages  in  the  University,  was  a  specially  earnest  seeker,  and  we  found 
in  him  a  very  valued  friend,  whose  approval  of  our  discourses  (to  nearly  all  of 
which  he  listened)  was  very  precious. 

The  Work  of  Divine  Healing    ~ 

After  the  first  few  days  proceeded  steadily,  and  some  of  the  cases  created  wide- 
spread interest.  We  laid  hands  upon  more  than  250  persons,  and  believe  that  a 
large  proportion  of  these  were  blessed,  a  number  were  healed  without  any  human 
touch.  But  beyond  all  healing,  the  deep  spiritual  blessing  which  the  people 
received  was  the  most  marked  feature  of  the  mission,  our  teaching  being  greatly 
owned  of  G-od,  and  for  all  the  results  we  do  heartily  give  Him  all  the  glory.  It 
would  be  quite  impossible  to  attempt  to  give  details  of  all,  but  we  shall  now  pre- 
sent, as  in  our  former  letters,  an  epitome  of  the  verbatim  report  of  the 

Closing  Praise  and  Testimony  Meeting, 

Held  on  Monday  evening,  August  20,  when  the  building  was  crowded  to  its 
utmost  capacity.  This  report  was  prepared  by  Mr.  G.  H.  Hawes,  as  in  former 
missions  in  California. 

The  opening  prayer  by  the  Rev.  Br.  Jewell  was  very  beautiful  and  touching, 
and  as  it  is  in  type-writing  now  before  us,  we  feel  led  to  give  it  a  place  in  this 
record.  This  prayer  was  especially  realized  by  myself,  for  reasons  which  will 
afterwards  appear. 


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''Father  in  Heaven,  accept  the  gratitude,  the  thanksgiving  of  our  hearts,  of 
hundreds  of  hearts,  before  thee  to-night,  that  in  thy  gracious  providence  thou 
didst  direct  our  brother  and  sister  to  this  place  to  conduct  this  Mission,  to  in» 
struct  this  people,  and  to  lead  them  gently  on  in  the  enjoyment  and  in  the  reali- 
zation of  the  great  privileges  that  open  before  thy  people  in  the  name  and  for 
the  sake  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  And  we  ask  thee  to  accept  the  gratitude  of 
our  hearts  for  the  spiritual  quickening  that  has  come  to  so  many,  for  the  deep 
spiritual  interest  that  has  pervaded  all  these  services,  for  the  deepening  autt 
quickening  of  t  he  kingdom  of  God  within  the  hearts  of  thy  children. 
^  We  thankthee,  Father,  for  this  dispensation  of  thy  grace,  for  the  visit  of  the 
Day-spring  from  on  high;  we  bless  thee  that  the  Sun  of  Righteousness  has  arisen 
with  healing  in  his  wings,  and  we  have  realized  the  overshadowing  presence  of 
the  Holy  Ghost  through  these  series  of  meetings.  We  bless  thee,  our  heavenly 
Father,  and  pray  that  this  spirit  may  continue,  may  this  anointing  abide,  and  may 
the  spiritual  tides  grow  deeper  and  stronger  and  increase  in  volume  and  in 
power  until  hundreds  more  shall  realize  the  great  salvation  and  rejoice  in  the 
fullness  of  thy  love. 

"We  thank  thee,  our  heavenly  Father,  that  thou  hast  in  answer  to  prayer 
and  in  response  to  the  touch  of  faith  on  the  part  of  so  many,  enabled  thy  church 
to  realize  not  only  that  the  Son  of  man  hath  power  on  earth  to  forgive  sin,  but 
even  that  the  voice  divine  is  heard,  'liise,  take  up  thy  bed  and  walk.'  And  we 
bless  thee  that  so  many  have  exercised  the  faith  through  the  encouraging  voice 
of  thy  servant  and  hand-maiden  and  the  quickening  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit, 
and  have  been  enabled  to  know  that  tliou  art  the  healer  of  their  bodies.  O 
blessed  Lord,  we  thank  thee  for  the  pains  that  have  been  removed,  for  the  pains 
that  have  been  rebuked,  and  for  the  feeling  that  has  been  experienced  and  real- 
ized to  thy  people  here.  O  Lord  we  thank  thee  for  what  has  been  accomplished; 
for  the  great  increase  of  faith  in  the  hearts  of  thy  children ;  we  bless  thee  for  the 
skepticism  that  has  been  removed;  we  bless  thee  for  the  Spirit  that  has  fallen 
upon  those  who  were  inclined  to  question  and  doubt  and  cavil,  and  so  many  that 
began  with  questionings,  but  have  been  enabled  to  see  the  hand  of  the  Lord  and- 
rejoice  that  thou  wast  in  the  midst  of  thy  people.     Blessed  be  thy  name. 

"And  now  we  come  to  the  last  night  of  this  mission,  the  last  interview  of  these 
gracious  services,  and  we  look  up  to  thee  and  thank  thee  for  thy  presence  through 
the  days  and  the  weeks  of  the  past,  and  we  realize  thy  presence  now.  Blessed  be 
thy  name,  the  Lord  is  in  his  holy  temple  to-night,  thy  presence  does  overshadow 
us.  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghost  we  adore  and  praise  thee  that  thou  art  here  to- 
night in  the  plenitude  of  thy  mercy  and  grace.  Oh!  to-night  in  this  room 
gathered  here  may  there  be  many  who  shall  reach  forth  and  grasp  the  arm  divine, 
realizing  the  healing  grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

"Now  blessed  Lord  we  pray  that  thou  wilt  be  with  our  sister  and  brother  as 
they  shall  go  from  us;  O  Lord  direct  all  their  steps,  select  for  them  their  places  of 
labor,  attend  them  wherever  they  go,  and  oh!  do  thou  grant  to  bring  to  thy  great 
name  glory  by  continuing  to  work  through  them  for  the  release  of  those  who  are 
in  bonds,  and  for  the  glory  and  good  of  the  gospel.  We  ask  it  in  the  name  of 
Jesus,  our  Redeemer.     Amen." 

We  then  delivered  a  brief  address  concerning  the  blessings  which  had  at- 
tended the  meetings,  and  the  arrangements  which  were  being  made  to  continue 
the  work. 

We  took  the  opportunity  of  recording  our  gratitude  to  our  beloved  friend 
and  brother,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Jewell,  who  had  aided  us  throughout  the  mission  in  an 
eminently  wise  and  judicious  manner,  speaking  of  us  and  writing  concerning  us  in 
the  columns  of  the  Christian  press  kind  words,  for  which  we  can  find  no  adequate 
expressions  of  thankfulness.  We  also  recorded  our  appreciation  of  the  kindness 
of  many  pastors  and  officers  of  churches  who  had  sympathized  with  and  helped 
us,  eminent  amongst  those  being  the  Rev.  C.  N.  Alflerbach,  who  presides  over 
the  German  Methodist  Episcopal  Churches  of  this  State. 

At  this  stage  we  were  about  to  refer  to  the  numerous  testimonies  in  writing 
which  we  held  in  our  hands,  and  had  just  uttered  the  words,  "Now  the  first  testi- 
mony that  we  will  take,"  when  the  Rev.  Dr.  Jewell  rose  before  the  sentence  was 
finished,  and  said: — 

f  OP  THS  X 

I    uNTVTr-RQTTV    » 


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**  Beloved  friends,  I  wish  to  say  a  word  before  Dr.  Dowie  begins  to  read;  I 
want  to  observe  the  order  that  our  brother  has  heretofore  observed,  and  insisted 
upon  observing,  all  the  way  through.  I  assume  that  these  testimoniss  that  he 
holds  in  his  hand  refer  to  cases  of  bodily  healing;  I  assume  that  that  is  true;  1 
want  to  put  the  spiritual  before  it,  so  as  to  observe  the  order  that_our  brother  has 
insisted  we  should  observe. 

**  I  want  to  bear  testimony  first  of  all  to  the  great  spiritual  good  that  has 
come  to  me  and  to  my  people  through  this  mission.  I  think  we  are  all  agreed 
in  saying  that  the 

Spiritual  Life  of  the  Church  has  been  Quickened, 

And  that  the  spiritual  tides  have  been  deepened  and  broadened;  that  we  are 
nearer  the  Lord,  that  we  know  the  Lord  better,  we  know  him  better  than  we 
did  when  our  brother  came  to  us. 

'*  I  am  very  grateful  that  my  people  have  shared  this  precious  privilege,  these 
gracious  opportunities;  have  been  identified  with  this  mission;  we  are  one  in  these 
things,  and  we  are  thankful  for  these  blessings,  for  it  prepares  us  the  better  to 
do  the  divine  will. 

**I  am  glad  we  understand  the  Bible  better  than  we  did  when  Brother  and 
Sister  Dowie  came;  I  am  glad  we  understand  the  gospel  better;  I  am  glad  it 
ministers  more  to  us  than  it  did  when  they  came;  I  am  glad  that  the  great  vol- 
ume of  truth  has  seemed  to  enlarge  and  broaden  until  really  there  has  been 

Grandeur,  Beauty,  and  G-lory  Added  to  this  Blessed  Gospel 

Of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ;  new  departments  of  the  gospel  have  opened  themselves 
to  us;  you  have  opened  new  pastures  upon  which  we  are  enabled  to  feed;  you 
have  introduced  new  visions  of  love  and  mercy  that  are  really  so  refreshing  and 
sweet  to  us,  that  we  shall  claim  the  privilege  of  feeding  upon  them  when  you  are 
gone,  to  the  glory  of  God,  in  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. 

"  We  are  thankful  for  all  of  this;  for  the  great  spiritual  good  that  has^come  to 
our  people.  The  gospel  has  been  vindicated,  and  we  are  enabled  to  stand  here 
to-day  and  say  that  the  Bible  as  it  has  been  expounded  by  our  brother  is  more 
than  ever,  more  than  ever,  the  representative  of  the  full-orbed  complete  gospel, 
blessed  be  God,  saving  spirit,  soul  and  body. 

*•  We  are  trusting  to-night  that  this  good  work  begun  here  shall  continue. 
AVe  are  trusting  a  little  more  than  this;  that  God  in  his  gracious  providence  will 
direct  our  brother  and  sister  to  our  midst  again  after  a  little,  that  they  may  come 
back  to  us  and  see  and  realize  by  contact  with  us  and  communion  with  us,  that 
their  labor  has  not  been  in  vain  in  the  Lord." 

This  eloquent  tribute  from  this  eminent  minister,  who  has  labored  long  and 
well  amongst  the  churches  of  his  denomination  in  America  (numerically  the  larg- 
est in  this  land)  very  deeply  afi"ected  us,  and  made  a  deep  impression  upon  the 
people. 

We  then  referred  to  the  fact  that  over  eighty  persons  have  professed  to  find 
peace  in  Christ  during  the  mission,  and  a  number  of  these  stood  up. 

We  then  called  for  testimonies  to  healing  through  faith  in  Jesus. 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  Fifteen  Years'  Rheumatic  Gout. 

Miss  Emma  Hudson,  of  Peterboro,  Canada,  handed  us  the  following  written 
testimony,  which  we  read: — 

"  I  rejoice  in  having  the  privilege  to  testify  for  Jesus  this  evening;  he  is  my 
Saviour,  my  Healer,  my  Sanctifier;  I  give  him  all  the  glory.  Fifteen  long,  long, 
weary  years,  I  have  sufi'ered  with  rheumatism;  I  was  treated  by  the  most  skill- 
ful doctors;  then  going  from  place  to  place  where  we  would  hear  of  noted  doctors. 
The  same  answer  from  all:  *No  help — nervous,  chronic  rheumatism  of  the  worst 
kind.  Also,  rheumatic  gout;  every  drop  of  my  blood  poisoned;  bones  turning 
to  chalk;  may  break  at  the  least  move;  my  joints  twisted  out  one  after  another." 
That  was  my  condition.  I  have  been  so  sore,  from  head  to  foot,  that  it  was  agony 
to  be  touched — sometimes  half  an  hour  getting  into  bed.  I  dare  not  let  anyone 
help  me;  and  for  several  years  I  was  too  sore  and  weak  to  use  crutches,  even. 


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I  had  one  eaxthly  hope  left;  change  of  climate  nyght  restore  me.  I  had  to  walb 
long  for  strength  enough,  even,  to  take  the  journey  to  California.  My  dear 
brother  in  Peterboro  carried  me  into  the  bus,  into  the  cars,  tears  stealing  down 
his  cheek,  expecting  that  I  would  die  on  the  road  from  Canada  to  California. 
This  beautiful  climate  failed  to  restore  me;  my  earthly  hope  was  gone.  I  did 
not  let  my  loved  ones  know  (my  dear  brother  is  now  with  me)  that  day  after  day 
I  was  sinking;  they  had  sorrow  enough  about  me.  If  Jesus  would  only  take  me 
home,  it  would  be  better  for  them  not  to  know  of  my  suflFering.  All  hope  was 
gone  But  I  was  at  rest,  for  I  loved  my  Saviour,  and  I  knew  I  should  go  to 
him.  And  when  I  thus  got  to  the  end  of  myself  the  dear  Saviour  sent  Dr.  Dowie 
and  Mrs,  Dowie  to  teach  us  these  beautiful  words,  these  wonderful  words  of  life. 
I  saw  they  were  hiding  behind  Jesus;  I  saw  they  were  presenting  Jesus;  I  saw  it 
it  was  Jesus'  words  they  were  speaking.  Step  by  step  their  teaching  led  me  on 
until  I  could  say,  *  I  will  be  made  whole.'  They  prayed  for  me;  God  answered 
that  prayer.  I  felt,  when  Mr.  Dowie  laid  hands  upon  me  in  Jesus'  name,  that  I 
had  touched  Jesus;  I  was  every  whit  made  whole  that  very  moment.  Glory  be 
to  Jesus.  (*Amen,'  from  the  audience.)  I  feel  I  will  want  to  sing  through 
eternity,  'Praise  God,  from  whom  all  blessings  flow.'  I  thank  God  that  dear 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie  ever  came  to  San  Jose,  and  I  thank  dear  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie 
that  they  were  willing  to  be  used  of  God  for  my  restoration.  My  heart  is  sad 
at  the  parting  to-night;  I  look  forward  to  the  meeting  up  yonder. 

"The  Bible  to  me  is  a  new  book;  Jesus  is  more  precious  to  my  soul.  I  long 
for  everyone  here  to-night  who  has  not  touched  Jesus  as  their  Saviour  and  their 
Healer,  to  touch  him  now.  He  is  waiting;  he  is  willing;  just  trust  him  now, 
and  he  will  save  you;  he  will  help  you;  he  will  cleanse  you;  he  will  keep  you." 

After  we  had  read  these  touching  words  we  asked  the  sister  to  stand  up  and 
show  herself  to  the  people,  and  add  a  few  words.  Holding  her  crutches  in  our 
hands,  we  said: — 

"Thtse  are  your  crutches,  are  they  not?"  referring  to  a  pair  of  crutches 
standing  by  the  pulpit. 

*•  Yes,  sir." 

*•  They  belong  to  me,  don't  they  ?  " 

*'  I  bequeathe  them  to  you  gladly." 

I  then  asked  her  to  tell  the  people  how  she  came  to  the  meeting  that  after- 
noon, and  received  the  healing.     She  said: — 

"  I  came  to  the  meeting  that  afternoon  feeling  very  helpless,  and  I  felt  there 
was  no  hope  for  me  only  in  Christ;  I  felt  Jesus  did  want  to  heal  me,  and  the  mo- 
ment Mr.  Dowie  laid  hands  upon  me  prayer  was  answered;  I  was  at  once  set  free, 
and  walked  away  without  my  crutches,  which  I  have  done  ever  since.  That  night 
I  could  not  sleep,  I  did  not  care  to  sleep,  I  was  so  full  of  joy;  and  for  two  or  three 
nights  I  could  only  praise.  I  feel  the  witness  within  that  the  Lord  has  done  the 
work  and  I  have  been  healed.  I  have  had  to  commence  like  a  child  and  learn  to 
walk,  but  I  am  walking  without  any  help,  and  I  am  going  to  trust  him  to  the 
end." 

The  audience  immediately  upon  the  close  of  this  testimony  broke  out  singing 
"Praise  God  from  whom  all  blessings  flow," 

A  Spiritualist  Converted  and  Blessed. 

Mrs.  E.  Moran,  of  San  Jose,  wrote  as  follows :  "  I  rejoice,  dear  sir,  to  tell  you 
that  God  has  through  you  removed  the  empty  ark  of  Spiritualism  from  my  deceived 
heart  and  brain.  It  is  of  the  devil.  And  now,  dear  sir,  Christ  has  spoken  the 
word  of  power  to  me,  and  I  am  his  altogether. 

Healing  of  a  Severe  Cough  of  Twenty-five  Years'  Standing. 

Mr.  N.  K.  Potter  said,  "  I  wish  to  testify  to  the  fact  that  I  am  through 
Christ  healed  of  a  severe  cough  of  twenty-five  years'  standing  during  this  mission 
and  through  your  agency. " 

Healing  of  Two  Aged  Negroes- 

Mr.  Randolph  Cooper  and  his  wife,  Mrs.  Ann  Cooper,  two  happy -looking  aged 
Africans,  testified  to  their  healing  of  many  complaints,  and  added  to  their  written 


testimony  some  very  touching  words.  These  testimonies  created  great  interest, 
and  the  audience  at  once  broke  forth  with,  "  All  hail  the  power  of  Jesus'  name," 
which  rang  joyously  out  from  every  portion  of  the  crowded  building. 

Healing  and  Blessing  to  a  Family. 

Mrs.  John  T.  Bell,  in  a  beautiful  little  written  testimony,  said:  "I  wish  to 
testify  to  bodily  healing  and  spiritual  blessing  for  myself  and  children.  We  rest 
in  confidence  that  the  keeping  power  of  Christ  will  preserve  us  from  sickness 
from  this  time  on."    Mrs.  Bell  rose  and  confirmed  her  written  testimony. 

This  was  followed  by  another  letter  from  Mrs.  Jennie  C.  Panton,  a  lady  who 
had  been  exceedingly  helpful  in  arranging  and  carrying  out  the  mission.  She 
testified  to  the  "  inspiration  and  comfort  received  from  the  patient,  loving  teach- 
ings of  the  mission.  Through  them  I  am  now  able  to  say  in  confidence  that  I  am 
quietly  trusting  God  to  do  everything  for  me. " 

Mrs.  H.  V.  Stever,  sister  of  the  foregoing,  also  a  helper,  testified  to  blessing 
received. 

Mrs.  M.  E.  H.  Baird,  one  of  the  first  and  most  efficient  of  our  helpers,  has 
also  sent  us  a  letter  .containing  most  beautiful  testimony  to  the  blessing  received 
by  herself,  her  husband,  and  family. 

Healing  of  a  Lady  of  Many  Years'  Troubles,  "Who  "Was  Sent 
by  Her  Doctor  from  Her  Sick-bed  to  the  Mission. 

Mrs.  Mary  J.  Walker  testified  in  great  detail  to  her  healing.  She  said:  "  Dr. 
Hunmer  kept  telling  me  about  you  and  your  work,  and  how  he  believed  in  Christ's 
healing.  But  I  was  in  bed;  I  did  not  think  of  coming  to  you.  Friday  morning 
he  came  in  and  said  that  a  neighbor  of  ours  was  coming;  then  after  he  left  an- 
other neighbor  came  in  and  told  me  about  the  wonderful  healings  which  were  go- 
ing on  in  this  church.  After  she  left  I  thought  I  would  like  to  go,  as  I  was  suf- 
fering very  much.  I  had  only  sat  up  a  little  at  times  and  had  not  left  my  sick- 
room. I  arose  and  came  to  the  church,  and  that  afternoon  I  was  relieved  at 
once,  through  your  instrumentality  in  prayer  by  the  laying  on  of  hands,  through 
faith  in  Christ,  from  all  my  complaints." 

I  Had  Come  out  of  My  Bed  to  G-et  This  Healing,  and  "Went 

Home  Well." 

This  lady's  troubles  were  many  and  serious,  but  the  details  cannot  be  given. 

Healing  of  Heart  and  Spinal  Diseases  of  Thirty  Years'  Stand- 
ing, and  of  a  Tumor  of  Seven  or  Eight  Years  in  the 
Stomach,  Supposed  to  Be  Cancerous. 

Great  interest  attached  to  this  case,  for  the  poor  sufierer  had  been  so  mar- 
velously  blessed.  He  was  one  of  two  patients  concerning  the  healing  of  whom 
Dr.  Bishop  had  already  testified  in  one  of  our  meetings.  Mr.  C.  N.  Lathwesen,  who 
was  then  supposed  to  be  dying,  wrote  to  me  under  date  of  July  31  from  Pacific 
Grove,  saying,  "  Dear  man  of  God,  I  implore  your  prayers  in  the  name  of  Jesus 
for  my  healing.  I  have  been  sick  for  thirty  years.  I  am  now  day  by  day  look- 
ing for  the  Master  to  remove  me  to  the  mansions  above;  but  if  it  can  be  his  will 
I  would  like  to  be  restored  for  God's  glory,  and  to  testify  to  his  power  to  save  to 
the  uttermost.     Nearly  everyone  in  San  Jose  knows  me  in  my  aiflictions." 

This  touching  petition  was  handed  to  iis  at  the  opening  of  our  mission  by 
the  poor  sufi^erer's  wife,  who  had  come  up  for  this  purpose  from  Pacific  Grove, 
some  forty  miles  distant.  She  waited  day  by  day  upon  the  Lord  with  us  in 
prayer,  and  at  last  returned  to  the  Grove  and  told  her  husband  that  she  did  not 
believe  he  would  be  healed  unless  he  came  up  to  attend  the  meetings  and  received 
the  teaching.  Although  he  was  in  a  dying  condition,  and  enduring  great  agony, 
he  was  so  impressed  with  his  wife's  earnestness  that  he  made  the  effort,  was 
brought  up  to  San  Jose  and  brought  into  the  meeting  in  a  most  pitiable  condition. 
Owing  to  the  nature  of  the  spinal  disease  from  which  he  suffered,  he  had  no 


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control  over  the  movements  of  his  limbs,  which  jerked  out  in  all  directions,  and 
added  to  the  excruciating  pain  from  which  he  suffered  in  his  stomach  and  heart. 

But  during  the  first  meeting  he  attended,  the  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit  came 
upon  him.  He  received  the  tsaching  fully,  and  that  afternoon  was  instanta- 
neously and  perfectly  restored  to  health,  and  remains  to  this  moment  a  healed 
man.     He  spoke  from  the  platform,  in  broken  English,  the  following  words: — 

"Dear  friends,  I  wonder  that  I  am  here;  but  I  praise  God,  the  Almighty, 
that  through  his  power  and  through  faith  in  Jesus  Christ  now  I  am  a  well  man. 
[•'Bless  the  Lord,"  from  Dr.  Jewell.]  I  suffered  for  thirty  years — thirty  long 
years;  I  don't  know  if  Job  suffered  more.  ["  Not  so  long,  by  any  means,"  said 
Mr.  Dowie.]  I  have  many  good  physicians;  many  times  I  wring  my  hands  in 
thirty  years  and  say,  'Lord,  take  me  away!  oh,  take  me  away!'  but  he  didn't. 
But  if  I  prayed,  'Lord  help  me  with  a  little  more  faith,  with  a  little  more  pa- 
tience, with  a  little  more  grace  and  trust,'  the  Ljrd  was  so  willing  to  hear. 

"Last  Friday,  a  week  ago,  the  mercy  cam 3  in  such  healing  power,  but  I  forget 
something  1  was  going  to  say.  For  seven  or  eight  years  I  suffered  with  a  hard 
cancer  in  the  stomach,  and  a  long  time,  a  heart  disease  trouble,  and  from  the 
crown  of  mine  head  to  my  feet  there  was  not  an  inch  that  did  not  pain  me;  not  one 
inch  except  my  poor  hands,  and  I  thank  God,  the  almighty  One,  he  left  me  them 
poor  hands,  because  I  have  to  make  my  living  with  them.  [Mr.  Lathweson  is  a 
'  tailor  by  trade. ]  Now  I  am  a  well  man.  Praise  God  in  the  highest!  Through 
faith  in  our  beloved,  sweet  Jesus,  I  am  a  well  man.  The  cancer  is  dropped,  the 
heart  disease  is  gone,  the  pain  is  gone;  where  it  has  gone  to  I  don't  care;  it  has 
gone!  it  has  gone!  I  lay  in  the  hardest  convulsions  with  the  heart  disease,  and  I 
struggle  in  every  direction,  and  mine  poor  family  sometimes  sheds  tears.  I  love 
my  family  from  the  bottom  of  my  heart;  they  see  me  suffer,  but  I  could  not 
help  it. 

"I  never  see  my  wife  so  thankful  iti  all  my  life  as  just  this  last  ten  days.  I 
say  for  my  own  self,  ^Praise  God  ! '  I  thank  God  in  Heaven  that  he  sent  this  dear 
brother  and  sister  here,  and  through  their  meetings  and  loving-kindness  they  lead 
me.  I  am  healed  !  and  something  more,  my  dear  brother,  I  am  a  little  more 
patient  since  I  been  well;  I  reach'out  my  hand  and  say,  Almighty  Father,  help  me 
that  I  live  in  faith  all  my  life,  a:id  live  a  devoted  Christian  all  my  life.  That  is 
what  I  ask."     ("Bless  God,"  from  the  audience). 

We  then  said,  "I  think  we  will  have  that  happy  wife  talk,  for  she  went 
down  to  the  borders  of  the  grave  and  brought  him  up — was  that  it  ? " 

She  replied,  "Pretty  near  it."  She  then  came  upon  the  stand,  and  said: 
"My  dear  sisters  and  brethren,  we  live  a  long  time  in  this  city  and  you  all  know 
lis,  and  you  know  my  husband;  then  you  know  me;  1  was  with  him.  I  thought 
I  never  could  leave  him  alone  on  account  of  his  sickness.  Thirty-six  years  ago  I 
married  him,  in  November,  and  so  long  as  I  been  married  I  never  saw  him  well. 
Before  I  was  converted,  I  pray  sometimes  every  day  and  night — and  often  didn't 
sleep  two  hours — and  pray  God  to  open  a  way.  And  the  Lord  was  gracious  and 
sent  this  minister.  Dr.  Jewell,  and  he  talk  and  preach,  and  I  had  a  love  for  the 
Methodist  Church  since;  and  he  was  converted  to  the  Methodist  Church  and  have 
an  opportunity  to  testify,  go  to  the  church  and  have  the  prayer-meeting;  what  we 
didn't  have  in  our  Lutheran  Church.  But  this  last  year  I  see  more  in  the  Bible, 
and  the  Lord  opened  another  way.  I  told  my  husband,  'Could  you  not  take  the 
faith  to  be  healed  ? '  'Well,'  he  say,  'mother  I  have  to  suffer  God's  will.'  And 
everybody  tells  me  pretty  near,  that  he  will  have  a  crown  in  Heaven  if  he  suffers. 
I  tell  you  its  very  easy  to  say,  but  anybody  got  a  sick  man  in  their  family  suffer- 
ing day  and  night,  its  another  thing.  I  know  what  I  suffered  with  him;  could 
not  sleep  the  whole  night,  and  the  next  morning  sick,  and  the  whole  day  sick,  and 
he  pray  God  to  take  him  away  and  give  him  rest,  or  to  send  somebody  that  he 
would  be  healed.  But  the  Lord  waited  till  now — oh!  my  dear  sister  and  brother, 
the  Lord  waited  till  just  now. 

"Eleven  years  ago  he  went  East  and  wanted  to  die  there,  and  said  if  he  die 
there  then  I  could  come  back  to  California,  and  if  he  die  there  I  should  fetch  his 
corpse  back.  And  I  said,  'Father,  I  won't  do  that;  if  you  can  die  here,  you  can  die 
in  California;  I  like  beter  you  will  die  in  California. '  And  I  have  to  cheer  him  up 
all  the  time  the  best  I  know  how;  1  believe  he  would  be  lying  in  the  grave  if  I 


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didn't  cheer  him  all  the  time.  I  often  tell  him  when  we  came  to  Minnesota,  now 
go  die,  die  if  you  can;  but  he  couldn't  do  it;  he  have  to  wait,  he  have  to  come  back 
to  California,  and  he  have  to  testify  here  that  the  Lord  have  power  on  this  earth 
to  heal.  [Cries  of  *  Amen. ']  lean  testify  here  that  he  had  got  the  cancer  and 
the  heart  disease,  and  that  he  is  healed.  Praise  the  Lord  for  such  a  healing 
power." 

(This  lady  was  rather  a  stout  woman,  with  a  frank,  hopeful,  cheerful  man- 
ner, witty  in  her  manner  of  talking,  and  carried  the  feelings  of  the  audience  with 
her  all  the  time  of  her  speaking.  All  sitting  upon  the  platform  rose  and  shook 
her  hand  heartily  as  she  was  about  to  take  her  seat. ) 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  Three  Years'  Rheumatic  Gout- 

Mrs.  Vandegrift,  of  the  Willows,  near  San  Jose,  desired  us  to  testify  on 
her  behalf  concerning  her  healing.  She  had  been  brought  in  by  her  husband  in 
a  carriage,  and  then  he  lifted  her  on  to  the  crutches  (which  were  showed  to  the 
audience),  and  after  the  address  we  saw  her,  laid  hands  upon  her  in  prayer  in 
Jesus'  name,  and  every  bone  in  her  body  was  instantly  set  free.  She  testified 
publicly  on  two  occasions,  and  had  said  to  us  on  the  previous  Saturday,  "lam 
perfectly  free,  from  the  crown  of  my  head  to  the  soles  of  my  feet,  from  the 
rheumatic  pain." 

She  stood  and  talked  to  Dr.  Bishop  and  others  for  about  twenty  minutes  after 
she  was  healed,  and  although  she  did  not  feel  she  could  face  the  large  audience 
in  the  church,  she  desired  that  glory  to  God  should  be  given  in  her  behalf. 

Pubhc  Testimony  of  a  Doctor  to  the  Healing  of  Two  of  His 

Patients. 

We  then  asked  Dr.  A.  B.  Bishop,  who  sat  near  to  us,  to  speak  as  the  Lord 
might  lead  him  concerning  the  two  previous  cases,  with  both  of  which  he  was  per- 
fectly conversant,  having  been  the  physician  in  attendance  upon  them.  We 
quote  the  following  from  the  verbatim  report: — 

Dr.  Bishop,  a  tall,  intelligent,  tine-looking  gentleman,  with  a  very  benevo- 
lent countenance,  rose  in  the  gallery,  and  in  a  very  impressive  manner  said: 
"Brother  Dowie,  it  will  be  more  to  my  credit  to  give  testimony  about  some 
patients  I  have  cured;  but  for  the  credit  of  the  gospel  and  for  the  honor  of 
Christ  I  will  say  that  I  knew  these  two  patients,  and  these  two  persons  have 
been  healed,  and  they  were  great  sufiFerers. 

*'  I  was  called  to  see  Sister  Vandegrift  about  two  years  ago;  1  paid  her  a  few 
visits,  perhaps  covering  ten  days  or  two  weeks,  and  she  improved  vinder  my  treat- 
ment and  went  to  the  mountains;  after  that  I  had  nothing  more  to  do  with  her; 
I  think  she  had  no  more  medical  services.  She  considered  her  case  incurable, 
and  silently  suffered  on.  I  have  seen  her  since.  I  know,  before  her  cure,  her 
joints  were  swollen;  her  hands  were  almost  unusable.  I  saw  her  after  she  was 
cured,  and  she  said,  *  See,  doctor,  how  I  can  open  and  shut  my  hands  as  you  can 
yourself  ? '  As  Dr.  Dowie  said,  she  stood  in  the  vestibule  of  the  church  fifteen 
or  twenty  minutes  without  any  support,  without  leaning  against  the  wall,  even. 

**I  met  Brother  Lathwesen  first  about  five  years  ago,  when  I  moved  here. 
I  was  not  called  to  treat  him,  because  he  considered  his  case  beyond  the  reach 
of  any  human  agency.  I  was  not  called  until  about  two  years  ago,  and  when  I 
was  I  found  him  suffering  great  pain;  had  trouble  with  the  spine  and  spinal 
cord,  and  had  convulsive  movements  in  the  arms  and  limbs.  I  treated  him  with 
electricity,  to  relieve  the  pain.  I  knew  he  was  a  great  sufferer.  I  did  not  ex- 
amine the  cancer  very  closely,  but  I  know  he  had  heart  disease  of  a  very  bad 
type.  I  have  examined  him  since  he  says  he  was  cured,  and  he  acts  like  a  well 
man. 

**  I  like  to  give  this  testimony  because  it  gives  honor  to  Christ.  I  believe,  as 
they  state,  they  were  healed  instantly,  and  I  think  we  all  must  admit  that  Christ 
has  power  on  earth  not  only  to  forgive  sins,  but  to  heal  the  body." 

We  then,  after  thanking  the  Doctor  for  his  testimony,  asked  Mr.  Lathwesen 
to  give  us  further  particulars  concerning  the  tumor,  and  who  had  diagnosed  it  as. 
cancerous  ? 


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Mr.  Lathwesen  answered,  "Dr.  Nichols,  of  Eocliester,  and  our  neighbor,  a 
druggist,  both  pronounced  it  cancer.  I  was  in  great  misery  and  suffering.  Dr. 
Nichols  said  it  was  cancer.  Since  that  time  I  never  asked  any  more  doctors  about 
it,  because  I  knew  it  my  own  self.  Now  all  that  lump  is  entirely  gone  away  and 
I  feel  empty  there." 

After  Mr.  Lathwesen  finished.  Dr.  Bishop  said  he  had  noticed  the  tumor, 
but  did  not  diagnose  it,  and  that  it  was  a  very  difficult  thing  indeed  to  diagnose 
correctly;  but  as  far  as  human  investigation  was  concerned  there  was  every 
probability  that  it  was  a  cancer. 

Many  Witnesses- 

At  this  stage  of  the  meeting  we  made  the  same  request  of  the  great  audience 
present  which  we  have  made  at  the  close  of  every  mission,  namely,  that  every- 
one in  the  meeting  who  was  convinced  that  Jesus  had  power  on  earth  to  heal  dis- 
ease, and  that  he  was  the  healer  of  his  people,  should  stand  to  their  feet.  The 
response  was  immediate;  it  seemed  as  if  the  whole  audience  instantly  stood  up, 
and  with  great  feeling  sang  the  Doxology. 

We  asked  all  who  had  received  spiritual  blessing  to  stand  up,  and  nearly  all 
did  so. 

We  then  asked  if  there  was  any  person  who  was  not  convinced  that  Christ 
was  the  healer,  to  hold  up  their  hand.     Only  one  hand  was  held  up. 

Healing  of  Internal  Diseases  of  "Women 

We  then  took  the  opportunity  of  mentioning  that  there  were  a  very  large 
nun>ber  of  healings  in  this  as  in  all  other  missions  concerning  which  we  could  not 
enter  into  detail,  a  class  which  are  more  numerous  in  our  missions  than  any  oth- 
ers; diseases  from  which  ladies  suffer  nameless  tortures.  I  then  asked  all  who 
had  been  healed  to  stand,  and  a  very  large  number  did  so.  The  testimony  meet- 
ing still  continued. 

InstantaneoTis  Healing  of  an  Abscess  in  the  Side,  of  Many 
Months'  Standing. 

A  young  man  named  Mr.  Hoffman,  from  Santa  Barbara,  who  had  been  saved 
and  healed  in  the  mission,  then  briefly  testified  to  his  healing,  lie  said:  "I 
have  been  suffering  for  a  long  time  with  an  abscess  in  the  side.  I  came  here  a 
little  over  two  months  ago  and  have  been  doctoring  ever  since  without  any  relief, 
until  Dr.  Dowie  opened  his  mission.  With  difficulty  I  attended  the  meetings  for 
a  little  while,  but  I  was  so  sick  that  I  was  unable  to  continue  to  attend.  I  gave 
to  my  mother  a  petition  for  prayer,  which  she  handed  Mr.  Dowie,  but  still  I  did 
not  get  the  blessing.  She  then  asked  him,  at  my  request,  to  come  and  see  me, 
for  I  felt  I  was  sinking.  He  did  so,  and  after  prayer  he  laid  his  hands  upon  me 
and  immediately  all  pain  departed;  I  was  able  to  use  my  leg  with  perfect  freedom, 
which  I  could  not  use  before  without  great  pain,  and  I  attended  the  meetings  at 
once,  and  have  attended  ever  since  without  any  pain.  The  abscess  has  all  gone 
away  and  I  feel  perfectly  healed."    (Dr.  Jewell  exclaimed,  **  Bless  the  Lord.") 

We  then  referred  to  the  fact  that  he  had  been  publicly  baptized  the  previous 
Lord's  day,  and  was  a  candidate  for  fellowship  in  one  of  the  churches  of  the  city. 
This  young  man's  case  created  great  interest,  and  he  seemed  in  perfect  health. 

Healing  of  Paralysis. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Hazen,  a  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  then 
testified  to  the  blessing  that  he  had  received  through  the  teaching  in  the  mission 
without  human  touch.  He  said  that  ten  years  ago  he  had  been  stricken  with 
paralysis  ;  he  had  been  healed  for  seven  years.  Then  he  gradually  failed  and  had 
to  give  up  work.  He  came  home  last  Friday  still  feeling  symptons  of  paralysis 
about  him,  "  but  hearing  of  these  meetings  and  of  the  wonderful  cures  Jesus  waa 
doing  here,  I  began  to  think  whether  it  was  God's  will  that  I  should  suffer  from 
this  disease  any  longer.  I  came  to  hear  Dr.  Dowie,  and  I  will  simply  say  his 
words  gave  me  great  encouragement;  and  I  will  say  in  addition  to  that  which  Dr. 
Jewell  has  already  better  said,  that  the  Bible  is  a  new  hook  to  me. 


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"I  believed  in  bodily  healing  before  I  came,  but  I  never  dared  to  teach,  hardly 
to  tell  of  it,  to  intimate  friends,  that  God  had  healed  me  once  or  more.  But  glory 
be  to  his  name,  I  have  now  been  able  to  put  my  trust  in  Jesus  for  a  perfect  cure, 
and  now  I  feel  such  a  power  and  influence  going  all  through  my  body  as  well  as, 
my  soul,  as  I  have  not  felt  for  years.  So  far  as  I  can  realize  there  are  no  symp- 
tons  remaining  of  this  paralysis.  I  am  trusting  Jesus  for  a  perfect  cure;  I  am  re- 
solved that  all  my  powers  of  body,  soul  and  spirit  shall  be  given  to  him.  I  know 
he  has  healed  me." 

This  minister's  testimony  created  a  deep  impression  upon  the  meeting.  It 
was  entirely  unexpected  by  us,  for  we  had  never  spoken  to  the  brother,  and  had 
not  known  of  the  blessing  he  had  received. 

Healing  of  Rupture  of  Eight  Years'  Standing  without  Human 

Touch. 

Mr.  Herrick,  of  San  Jose,  said:  "  For  over  eight  years  I  have  been  an  in- 
valid, brought  on  from  overwork  in  the  hot  climate  of  Arizona;  nervous  prostra- 
tion set  in,  a  severe  rupture  took  place,  and  I  was  unable  to  v/ork;  my  mind  was 
nearly  dethroned,  and  I  was  disqualified  from  doing  business.  I  came  to  this  city 
of  San  Jose  last  October. 

*  'During  the  meetings  of  last  week  I  said  to  a  friend,  '  People  are  being  healed 
down  there  to  the  church,  and  if  they  can  be  healed  I  know  1  can  be  if  I  trust  the 
Lord.'  On  Wednesday  afternoon  I  pressed  my  way  forward  amid  the  crowd  at 
the  close  of  the  meeting  to  take  Dr.  Dowie  by  the  hand.  He  was  trying  to  get 
the  people  to  sit  down,  but  we  all  wanted  to  speak  to  him.  I  said  to  him,  *  I  came 
here  to  be  healed.'  'Sit  down!'  says  he.  I  sat  down."  ( We  explained  to  the 
people  that  we  did  not  mean  to  be  rude  to  the  brother,  but  that  at  the  close  of 
our  addresses  people  thronged  us  in  such  numbers  that  we  could  not  get  to  the 
work  at  all  until  they  sat  down.)  Mr.  Herrick  continued:  •' It  don't  matter; 
you  were  quite  right;  thank  the  Lord  I  did  as  you  told  me,  I  sat  down.  In  a  few 
moments  1  felt  that  something  ought  to  be  done.  I  reasoned  in  this  way:  What 
is  the  doctor  doing  here?  Does  the  doctor  do  the  work,  or  is  it  the  blessed  Saviour? 
He  had  taught  us  it  was  the  Saviour.  I  said,  That  is  true,  it  is  the  Saviour,  it  is 
the  work  of  Jesus,  and  I  will  take  the  Saviour  at  his  word.  The  moment  I  said, 
'  It  is  the  Saviour,  and  that  I  would  take  him  at  his  word,'  I  felt  an  electric  shock 
go  all  through  my  physical  system,  and  where  the  most  disease  lay  the  shock 
seemed  tl)e  greatest.  I  went  into  one  of  the  side  rooms  where  thirty  or  forty 
persons  were  waiting  for  the  doctor.  He  came  in  presently  and  remained  a  few 
minutes,  and  his  dear  wife  called  him  out.  I  sat  there  while  person  after  person 
went  into  his  room  to  see  him,  and  I  left  without  seeing  him,  but  with  the  con- 
viction that  I  was  perfectly  cured. 

"I  did  not  tell  my  wife  that  night,  but  I  went  to  the  Lord  Jesus  and 
thanked  him.  I  pulled  off  the  truss  that  had  given  me  so  much  unhappiness, 
and  laid  it  down,  and  I  said  in  my  mind,  '  Lie  there  forever. '  And  the  medicine 
I  had  been  taking  to  help  me  along,  I  said  to  it,  '  You  remain  there. '  In  the 
morning  I  got  up  happy  in  the  Lord;  said  nothing  to  my  wife  that  day,  which 
was  Thursday.  I  came  on  Thursday  night,  and  a  brother  spoke  to  me,  a  very 
intelligent  gentleman,  and  said,  *  What  do  you  think  of  all  this ? '  'I  will  tell 
you  what  I  think:  I  believe  in  it,'  I  said.  I  then  told  him,  what  I  have  since 
told  everyone,  how  I  had  been  perfectly  healed. 

"  The  point  I  want  to  make  is  this:  W^hile  Dr.  Dowie  is  here  instructing  us 
how  to  get  healed,  let  us  remember  it  is  not  the  doctor,  but  it  is  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  who  is  the  healer.  When  the  doctor  leaves  us  the  healing  may  go  on — 
perhaps  not  so  well,  but  it  can  go  on,  and  if  we  trust  the  Lord  Jesus  it  will  go  on. 
Thank  God,  friends,  I  think  this  is  the  happiest  day  I  ever  spent  in  my  life. 
Not  only  is  my  body  healed,  but  my  spirit  is  quickened,  and  I  know  more  of  the 
Bible  to-night  than  ever  I  did  before." 

Healing  of  an  Injury  of  Sixteen  Years'  Standing. 

A  gentleman  who  did  not  give  his  name  told  of  his  healing  four  years  pre- 
viously. He  had  been  injured  in  his  side  by  raking  heavy  grain  oj6f  a  reaper, 
and  at  a  meeting  conducted  by  Brother  Newton  he  had  received  instantaneous 
healing. 


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Partial  Healing  of  Many  Years'  Deafness- 

Mrs.  Martin,  wife  of  Professor  Martin,  of  the  University  of  the  Pacific,  said 
that  she  thought  she  could  not  let  the  meeting  close  without  testifying.  She 
had  attended  the  meetings,  and  followed  our  teaching  closely,  and  fully  received 
the  doctrine.  She  had  been  a  sufferer  for  forty -four  years  from  deafness,  and 
now,  "through  the  ministry  of  Dr.  Dowie,"  she  said,  "  I  have  been  very  much 
relieved.  I  have  hesitated,"  she  added,  "about  testifying  to-night,  because  I 
am  not  absolutely  perfect  in  my  hearing;  but  I  am  so  much  better,  and  believe 
so  strongly  that  I  will  be  healed,  I  feel  my  faith  will  reach  up  to  it,  that  I  felt 
that  I  ought  to  testify.  I  w^ant  you  all  to  pray  for  me.  [Dr.  Jewell,  "The 
Lord  bless  her."]  The  enemy,"  she  continued,  "in  view  of  my  not  being  per- 
fectly healed,  will  try  to  make  me  weak  in  my  faith,  but  I  intend  to  believe  in 
the  grace  of  God  for  what  has  been  done  for  me,  and  it  is  very  mnch.  I  feel  to 
^ve  God  the  praise." 

Healing  of  Six  Years*  Chronic  Diarrhea. 

Mrs.  Baker  said:  "  Last  winter,  through  the  ministry  of  Rev.  Mr.  Irvine,. 
at  Pacific  Grove,  I  was  led  to  ask  him  in  a  cottage  meeting  to  anoint  me,  which, 
he  did,  and  I  have  been  healed  ever  since." 

Testimony  of  a  Minister. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Lawson,  minister  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church,  San 
Jose,  very  feelingly  testified  to  the  blessing  he  had  received  through  our  teaching. 
He  said:  "  The  Bible  seems  to  me  to  be  a  new  book.  Since  I  heard  these  teach- 
ings in  these  meetings  I  understand  it  as  I  never  understood  it  before,  and  Jesus 
Christ  seems  to  me  to-night  more  really  a  personal  Saviour  than  ever  he  has  done 
before.  I  thank  God  for  the  spiritual  good  I  have  received  in  this  meeting.  I 
feel  more  able  now  to  go  forth  and  preach  than  ever  before. " 

Mrs.  Dowie's  Closing  Address. 

After  this  impressive  little  testimony  Mrs.  Dowie  delivered  a  brief  farewell 
address,  which  made  a  deep  impression  upon  the  assembly. 

An  Invitation  to  Return  to  San  Jose. 

Dr.  Jewell  then  rose  and  said:  "Permit  me,  Doctor,  to  say  a  few  words.  I  just 
-want  to  ask  as  many  as  would  like  to  unite  in  inviting  Brother  and  Sister  Dowie, 
if  the  Lord  in  his  providence  should  open  the  way  for  them  to  come  to  us  again, 
to  rise  and  stand  upon  their  feet." 

The  entire  congregation  rose  en  masse  and  the  choir  immediately  commenced 
to  sing  sweetly  and  beautifully,  "God  Be  with  You 'till  We  Meet  Again."  Dr. 
Jewell  continued:  "I  wanted  to  say  a  word  also  suggested  by  my  dear  wife  to- 
night, and  it  seemed  so  sweet  to  me;  it  was  this:  that  she  had  never  been  able  to 
appreciate  before  the  wonderful  scenes  that  are  given  in  the  New  Testament  when 
the  suflferers  tried  to  press  up  to  Jesus;  she  never  could  fully  appreciate  and 
understand  it  as  she  had  witliin  these  few  days.  And  when  they  were  gathering 
around  and  pressing  up  it  seemed  to  her,  and  it  seemed  to  me,  just  as  though  we 
saw  the  scenes  of  more  than  1,800  years  ago  when  sufferers  came  and  sought  to 
press  up  to  Jesus;  and  as  they  pressed  around  our  brother  we  have  seen  him  try 
to  hide  behind  the  blessed  Jesus  and  to  make  them  see  that  Jesus  was  their 
healer,  not  himself.  Blessed  be  God  for  these  precious  memories.  And  now, will 
Dr.  Dowie  come  again? " 

We  then  rose  and  thanked  our  friends  and  the  meeting  for  their  kindness. 
It  made  our  heart  very  full  to  see  the  gratitude  and  love  which  gathered  round 
us,  and  we  promised,  God  willing,  to  return  to  San  Jose  at  the  close  of  the  next 
San  Francisco  Mission,  which  will  be,  probably,  about  the  middle  of  November. 

After  a  very  touching  prayer  by  Dr.  Jewell,  we  pronounced  the  bened^tixMi 
and  the  testimony  meatmg  closed. 


Two  Days'  Visitation  of  the  Bedridden. 

The  two  following  days,  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  twenty -first  and  twenty- 
second  of  August,  were  taken  up  in  visiting  many  bedridden  patients  in  and 
around  San  Jose,  a  number  of  whom  think  they  received  healing. 

A  Personal  Experience. 

And  now  speaking  in  my  ow^n  proper  person,  and  dropping  for  the  time. our 
missionary  and  editorial  "we,"  I  desire  to  record  with  profound  gratitude  to  my 
Lord,  an  incident  which,  although  it  is  known  to  a  few,  has  not  become  public 
property.     I  may  head  it 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  My  Dislocated  Shoulder. 

My  readers  will  scarcely  be  prepared  for  my  telling  them  that  during  the 
whole  of  the  three  hours  of  the  foregoing  testimony  meeting,  I  conducted  the  ex- 
ercises with  my  left  arm  torn  from  its  shoulder  socket,  although  the  fact  was  un- 
known to  a  single  person  in  the  building.  The  accident,  if  such  1  may  call  it,  for 
it  was  in  consequence  of  the  sin  of  another,  occurred  within  three-quarters  of  an 
hour  of  our  beginning  the  meeting.  It  was  a  quarter  past  seven  before  I  left 
with  Mrs.  Dowie  the  parlors  of  the  church  to  return  to  my  hotel  for  slight  refresh- 
ment and  the  arranging  of  certain  x^apers.  As  I  came  quickly  out  of  the  door  I 
slipped  upon  the  hard  asphalt  pavement  on  the  skin  of  a  piece  of  fruit,  and  fell 
with  a  tremendous  crash  upon  my  left  shoulder.  I  arose  at  once,  but  not  without 
difiBculty,  and  found  my  left  arm  was  hanging  powerless  by  my  side.  "  It  seems 
almost  as  if  it  were  broken, "  I  said.  Dr.  Holmes,  who  was  standing  by  (who  with 
Br.  Hervey  and  another,  and  the  two  doctors  already  mentioned,  make  a  quintette 
of  believing  doctors  in  San  Jose),  came  up  to  me  and  said,  "  0,  doctor,  have  you 
broken  your  arm  ?  "  I  at  once  replied,  "No,  it  cannot  be,  for  God's  word  has 
said,  '  He  keepeth  all  his  bones,  not  one  of  them  is  broken. ' "  A  little  crowd  had 
gathered  around  us,  from  which  I  hurried  away,  asking  them  to  go  back  and 
pray  that  I  might  be  able  to  conduct  the  meeting.  Accompanied  by  Elder  Cad- . 
man,  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  East  Oakland,  and  Mrs.  Bowie,  I  proceeded  to 
the  St.  James'  Hotel  in  great  agony.  I  asked  the  Lord  if  it  was  a  sprain  to  heal 
me;  if  by  any  possibility  it  could  be  a  broken  bone,  to  restore  it.  But  the  answer 
did  not  seem  to  come.  Pastor  Afflerbach  and  others  visited  me  immediately  and 
praj^ed  for  me  very  tenderly.  I  asked  them  all  to  go  back  to  the  church  and 
pray  for  me  there  in  a  private  room.  I  then  appealed  to  G  od  that  I  should  not 
be  put  to  shame,  nor  dishonor  the  name  of  the  Lord,  by  my  inability  to  conduct 
the  meeting.  I  immediately  got  power  to  move  my  arm  from  the  elbow  to  the 
finger  tips,  and  returned  to  the  church  convinced  that  the  injury  was  a  disloca- 
tion at  the  shoulder.  But  there  was  no  time  to  have  that  set  right,  for  the 
church  was  crowded  with  eager,  expectant  people,  and  the  rumor  had  got  abroad 
that  I  was  injured  and  would  not  be  able  to  proceed. 

I  went  into  Dr.  Jewell's  study  and  told  him  I  had  been  injured,  but  said 
nothing  as  to  the  nature  of  it.  After  prayer  we  at  once  entered  the  building 
and  conducted  the  meeting.  While  it  was  proceeding  I  felt  that  the  bone  was 
not  only  out  of  its  place,  but  that  it  had  slipped  back  and  was  pressing  hard 
against  my  side,  with  every  slight  movement  of  my  arm  or  body.  But  I  re- 
ceived in  answer  to  my  unspoken  prayer  such  continuous  streams  of  heavenly 
power  that  although  I  cannot  sa}'  I  was  at  all  times  without  pain,  yet  I  was  so 
completely  lifted  above  all  sense  of  pain  that  I  neither  manifested  it  nor  felt  it, 
for  the  most  part,  during  these  long  hours.  But  immediately  the  meeting  had 
closed  I  turned  to  my  friend,  Dr.  Bishop,  and  said,  "Doctor,  come  in  half  an 
hour  to  my  rooms,  at  the  St.  James*,  and  pull  my  left  arm  into  its  socket. "  I 
think  he  thought  I  was  joking,  almost,  at  first,  and  I  know  from  what  he  after- 
wards said  that  he  was  sure  I  was  mistaken:  for  it  was  impossible,  he  thought, 
for  anyone  to  be  in  such  a  condition  and  do  what  I  had  been  enabled  by  the 
Lord  to  do.  It  was  still  half  an  hour  after  the  meeting  before  I  could  get  away 
from  the  kindly  throng  who  gathered  around  us,  and  it  was  more  than  an  hour 
later  before  Dr.  Bishop  got  to  my  rooms,  through  no  fault  of  his  own,  because  he 


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was  waiting  m  another  portion  of  the-  hotel,  and  was  told  I  had  not  returned. 
Therefore  it  was  a  quarter  to  twelve  when  Dr.  Bishop  entered  my  room.  My 
arm  had  then  been  out  of  the  socket  for  four  hours  and  a  half.  Dr.  Jewell, 
Elder  Cadman,  Pastor  Afflerbach,  and  Mr.  G.  H.  Hawes,  our  stenographer,  were 
all  present,  with  Mrs.  Dowie.  I  then  for  the  first  time  had  my  coat  removed, 
and  Mrs.  Dowie  retired  into  the  next  room.  When  my  clothing  was  all  removed 
from  the  upper  part  of  my  body  it  was  found,  just  as  I  had  believed,  that  the 
arm  was  out  of  its  socket,  and  of  course  the  ligaments  were  ruptured,  and  ex- 
travasation of  blood  must  have  followed.  The  doctor  looked  very  grave,  but  I 
asked  him  to  proceed  to  business,  and  I  lay  upon  the  floor,  asking  the  friends  to 
pray.     The  doctor  placed  his  stockinged  foot  against  my  side,  and  with   one 

fentle,  strong  pull  the  arm  slipped  beautifully  into  its  socket  with  a  loud  snap, 
neither  felt,  nor  by  any  sound  expressed,  any  pain:  for  while  that  act  was  per 
formed  I  felt  as  perfectly  free  as  if  no  such  thing  was  being  done.  With  a  hearty 
**  Thank  God,"  I  sprang  to  my  feet. 

"But  you  must  be  suffering  great  pain  still,"  said  Dr.  Bishop. 

I  said,  *'  No.  I  thank  you  for  the  friendly  act,  but  now  the  Lord  will  do  all 
the  rest;  I  am  perfectly  healed." 

He  said,  *'  You  must  be  suffering  pain  ?  " 

I  said,  lifting  my  arm  over  my  head,  and  putting  it  to  the  farthest  extremity 
upon  my  back,  "  No,  there  is  no  pain,"  and  then  grasping  my  friend's  hands  with 
my  left  hand,  I  showed  them  that  all  the  power  was  in  my  arm. 

After  a  few  minutes'  prayer  and  happy  talk,  we  separated.  I  ate  a  hearty 
supper,  retired  to*Jest  and  slept  soundly,  leaning  my  head  for  a  good  portion  of 
the  night  upon  the  injured  shotilder.  The  next  morning  I  dressed  myself  freely 
and  easily,  and  found  there  was  no  inflammation  nor  injury  of  any  kind.  Dr., 
Bishop  called  during  the  day  with  a  patient  of  his  whom  he  desired  me  to  pray  for, 
and  found  that  I  was  free  from  pain.  I  visited  many  persons  that  day,  and  dined 
with  a  number  of  friends,  and  the  following  day  continued  my  visits,  and  from 
that  time  till  now  have  never  been  inconvenienced  by  the  injury  for  a  moment. 

This  little  incident,  though  not  publicly  narrated,  has  become  widely  known, 
and  I  humbly  hope  has  helped  to  strengthen  the  faith  of  many.  I  only  narrate 
it  here  that  I  may  give  all  the  glory  to  God,  who  for  Jesus'  sake  by  his  Holy 
Spirit  so  mightily  upheld  me,  and  so  graciously  restored  me.  Gladly  can  I  add 
my  testimony  to  the  truth  of  his  word,  "  I  am  the  Lord  that  healeth  thee;"  and 
to  the  declaration  concerning  his  servants,  *'  He  keepeth  all  their  bones  not  one 
of  them  is  broken. " 

After  the  Mission. 

We  have  received  since  the  close  of  the  mission  a  number  of  testimonies  to 
healing,  for  which  we  cannot  now  find  space,  and  many  letters  concerning  the  healed 
which  are  deeply  interesting.  We  will  content  ourselves  by  giving  one  of  these 
testimonies,  and  referring  to  one  or  two  of  these  letters. 

Healing  of  Ten  Years'  Broken  Muscle  of  the  Right  Knee, 

Mrs.  H.  A.  Pryce,  of  58  vSanta  Clara  St.,  San  Jose,  writes:  **  I  wish  to  add 
my  testimony  to  others  for  the  divine  healing  received  through  the  Kev.  John 
Alexander  Dowie.  I  believe  it  was  on  the  3rd  day  of  the  mission  that  I  was 
healed. 

About  ten  years  ago  I  met  with  an  accident  which  broke  the  muscles  of  my 
right  knee,  causing  me  much  suffering  ever  since.  In  addition  to  this  four  years 
ago  I  was  afilicted  with  sciatic  rheumatism,  for  which  I  had  no  relief  at  all  until  I 
visited  the  meetings,  and  entered  the  healing  room  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Dowie  and 
wife.  I  went  in  trusting  in  Jesus  to  heal  me,  and  in  about  ten  minutes  from  the 
time  I  entered  that  room  I  was  entirely  relieved  from  all  my  pain.  I  could  walk 
as  well  as  I  could  before  being  hurt,  ten  years  ago.  For  this  I  feel  very  thankful 
the  Lord,  and  also  to  Dr.  Dowie  and  his  wife. " 

Confirmation  of  Healings. 

Dr.  Jewell  in  a  recent  letter  speaks  in  very  kind  tarms  concerning  the  bless- 
ing which  has  followed  our  mission.     He  speaks  of  their  testimony  meetings  being 


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times  of  great  refreshing,  and  says,  "  Many  speak  the  most  pleasant  and  apprecia- 
tive words  of  your  presence  and  work  here.  We  shall  expect  a  great  blessing 
when  you  return  to  us.  We  found  Mrs.  Vandegrift  out-of-doors  when  we  called 
last  Friday;  she  is  free  and  gaining  strength;  her  faith  is  strong  and  her  heart  is 
glad.  Brother  Lathwesen  has  gone  to  Pacific  Grove,  a  well  and  happy  man.  My 
own  heart  is  wonderfully  drawn  towards  the  blessed  work  in  which  you  are  en- 
gaged, and  I  feel  at  times  that  I  must  qualify  by  study  and  communion  with  God 
for  a  better  knowledge  and  understanding  of  this  department  of  the  gospel. " 

The  following  words  are  also  quoted  from  Dr.  Jewell's  report  in  the  ChriaUan 
Advocate,  the  organ  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  on  this  coast,  in  its  issue 
of  August  29. 

San  Jose. 

"The  mission  for  divine  healing,  held  in  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
by  Kev.  J.  A.  Dowie,  assisted  by  his  estimable  wife,  has  been  a  great  blessing  to 
our  people.  The  Holy  Spirit  has  been  wonderfully  and  sweetly  present  in  all  the 
services,  and  hundreds  are  rejoicing  to  have  had  this  time  of  refreshing  from  the 
presence  of  the  Lord.  The  afternoon  meetings  have  continued  from  half  past  two 
until  five  and  six  o'clock,  and  the  evening  services  from  a  quarter  to  eight  until 
half  past  ten  and  eleven  o'clock,  and  even  then  the  people  would  seem  reluctant 
to  leave  the  place  where  Christ,  the  great  *'  world-magnet,"  was  so  exalted.  We 
. realized  as  never  before  the  attractiveness  of  a  "whole  and  perfect  Saviour,"  and 
came  to  understand  how  the  people  .needed  to  be  "  sent  away  "  from  Jesus  when 
in  his  public  ministry  in  Galilee.  There  have  been  several  clear  conversions  and 
a  general  and  signal  deepening  of  the  channels  of  spiritual  life  and  power.  The 
word  of  God  has  become  clearer  and  its  teachings  dearer  to  scores  and  hundreds 
of  believersi  Several  pastors  and  preachers,  together  with  very  many  of  the  most 
thoughtful  and  deeply  pious  of  our  church  members,  have  been  in  regular  attend- 
ance, and  have  seemed  unwilling  to  miss  a  single  service.  Oh,  with  what  holy 
delight  hare  these  waiting  throngs  lingered  and  drank  of  the  fountains  to  which 
they  have  been  directed  by  these  servants  of  the  Most  High  (rod I  Besides  the 
great  spiritual  benefits  realized,  there  have  been  several  instances  of  bodily  heal- 
ing by  faith  in  Jesus  in  answer  to  prayer.  Amid  tears  and  glad  testimonies,  the 
great  congregation  last  evening,  as  the  mission  closed,  by  a  rising  vote  invited 
these  Heaven-commissioned  and  sweet-spirited  evangelists  to  return  and  hold  an- 
other mission  in  our  church. "  F.  F.  Jewell. 

[Extracts  from  letter  to  "Lsaves  of  Healing"  for  Jauuary  1889,  concerning 
Mission  in  Sacramento.] 

This  Mission  was  held  from  Monday,  September  17,  to  Tuesday,  October  2, 
in  the  Congregational  Church. 

It  was  the  least  successful  of  all  our  Missions,  so  far  .as  outward  results  were 
concerned;  but  there  were  fruits  even  there.  "This  people's  heart  is  waxed 
gross  "  is  perhaps  the  best  description  which  could  be  given  to  the  spiritual  con- 
dition of  that  city,  where  sloth  and  sin  produce  a  moral  stupor  and  indifference 
to  eternal  things.     . 

Our  closing  Praise  and  Testimony  Meeting  was  held  on  the  evening  of  Tues- 
day, October  2.  We  did  not  have  this  meeting  reported  by  our  short-hand  writer, 
as  we  did  in  other  Missions,  so  that  the  testimonies  we  now  quote  are  from  our 
own  notes,  and  from  the  letters  of  the  healed. 

Testimony  of  a  Doctor. 

Sacramento,  Cal.,  October  2,  1888. 

Dear  Brother  Dowie:  I  esteexn  it  a  privilege  to  testify  that  I  have  re- 
ceived great  benefit  from  your  administration  of  the  Word,  viz. :  Christ  will  not 
send  the  Comforter  fully  into  our  being  until  the  temple  is  purified.  He  has  been 
knocking  at  the  door  of  my  heart  for  many  years,  and  for  many  years  I  have  been 
trying  to  keep  the  commandments,  and  forgot  that  He  said,  ' '  Without  Me  ye 
can  do  nothing." 

I  can  testify  to  the  peace  and  the  joy  in  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  also  the  great 
physical  relief  which  I  have  received  through  your  instrumentality,  and  I  believe 


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if  I  continue  in  Him,  He  will  heal  all  my  diseases.     I  now  wish  to  do  His  will,  in 
His  own  way,  and  I  earnestly  desire  the  best  gift.     Remember  me  in  your  prayers. 

Yours  in  Jesus,  G.  DART. 

To  these  written  lines  Dr.  Dart  added  some  very  earnest  words,  and  thanked 
God  for  our  visit  to  Sacramento. 

Healing  of  Twenty-four  Years'  Infirmities. 

Mrs.  N.  A.  Little,  208  Tenth  Street,  SacraxMento,  wrote  as  follows: 
"  Rev.  J.  A.  Dowie:  With  profound  gratitude  to  God  and  His  Son  Jesus 
Christ,  I  write  to  thank  Him  and  to  rejoice  that  He  has  sent  you  as  His  agent 
to  help  us  to  understand  more  fully  His  own  power  and  willingness  to  heal  dis- 
eases of  the  body,  at  this  day,  as  well  as  when  He  was  in  the  flesh  on  earth.  I 
praise  His  Holy  Name.  I  want  to  tell  how  much  good  your  prayers  and  your 
beloved  wife's  have  done  for  my  daughter,  Mary  E.  Little.  We  had  the  best 
doctors  for  her.  All  was  in  vain.  But  whefi  you  came  to  this  city,  I  saw  God's 
way  of  healing,  and  when  you  came  to  my  house  and  laid  your  hands  upon  my 
daughter,  God  heard  your  prayer,  and  I  do  bless  His  holy  name  she  has  been  free 
from  her  infirmity  ever  since.  Her  mind  is  now  clear  and  she  is  free  from  pain. 
It  must  be  Jesus  and  Him  only  who  has  done  this  mighty  work  for  her.  Many 
have  been  blessed  by  your  coming  to  this  city.         I  am  yours  in  Christ." 

Testimony  of  a  Lady  Physician,  Who  Accepts   Christ  as 

Healer. 

Dr.  (Miss)  L.  J.  Kellogg,  Seventh  and  I  Streets,  a  much-esteemed  Christian 
practitioner,  spoke  with  much  gratitude  of  blessing  received  during  the  Mission, 
and  that  from  thence  she  took  Christ  as  her  Doctor.  This  lady,  with  a  few  oth- 
ers, was  specially  helpful  to  us  in  the  work,  and  is  now  devoting  much  of  her 
time  to  evangelistic  efforts. 

The  First  of  Oiir  First-Fmits. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Browne,  III 7  Fourth  Street,  who  had  been  healed  in  the 
Palace  Hotel  on  June  16  last,  testified  to  her  continued  healing,  and  her  words 
were  confirmed  by  her  husband  and  daughter,  Mrs.  Chambers.  But  as  her  testi- 
mony will  be  given  in  detail  with  many  others  in  the  report  of  our  Testimony 
Meeting  of  October  28,  we  do  not  quote  it  here.  Mrs.  Browne  looked  well  and 
strong. 

Healed  Through  the  Agency  of  Dorothea  Trudel. 

Mrs.  Maria  Reaser,  V  Street,  between  Tenth  and  Eleventh  Streets,  gave  a 
very  interesting  description  of  her  healing  at  Mannedorf,  Switzerland,  through 
the  holy  and  great  woman  whose  fame  has  filled  the  world,  Dorothea  TrudeU, 
Mrs.  Reaser  says  she  used  to  remember  her  praying:  "Dear  Heavenly  Father,  I 
desire  and  demand  of  Thee  all  the  souls  that  are  led  into  my  house;  for  I  know 
that  thou  art  able  to  save  them  and  bring  them  to  thy  glory." 

Healed  Through  Pastor  Blumhardt's  Agency. 

Mrs.  M.  A.  Dutschke  testified  to  having  received  healing  through  the  good 
pastor  Blumhardt,  who  was  so  largely  used  in  Germany  a  few  years  ago;  and  said 
that  she  used  to  hear  him  say  often,  "Jesus  is  Conqueror." 

Heahng  of  Lupus  (Cancer)  and  Heart  Disease. 

Mrs.  N.  Hudson,  1408  J  Street,  testified  of  her  healing,  through  the  laying 
on  of  our  hands,  of  these  diseases.  She  says  in  a  written  testimony  that  the 
lupus  had  troubled  her  for  nine  years,  and  that  she  was  under  four  doctors;  but 
none  of  them  could  do  her  any  good.  She  says  it  is  now  well;  and  also  her  heart 
trouble  is  gone.  '*  Thanks  be  to  God."  We  have  seen  this  lady  recently  in  our 
meetings  in  the  Grand  Opera  House,  while  on  a  visit  to  San  Francisco,  and  she 
declares  herself  perfectly  healed,  and  looks  quite  well. 


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Twenty  Persons  Healed  "Witness  Thereto. 

Upon  our  call  for  all  who  had  been  healed  to  rise,  twenty  persons  did  so  and 
a  number  professed  to  have  been  saved. 

All  Present  Believe  the  Doctrine  That  Christ  is  Healer. 

After  a  number  of  persons  had  testified  to  their  healing,  I  called  upon  all 
present  to  say  if  they  had  received  the  doctrine  that  we  had  been  teaching,  and 
all  present  did  so.  Then  we  closed  the  Mission,  grateful  for  the  blessing  we  had 
received,  and  surrounded  by  a  crowd  of  sympathetic  friends,  giving  God  all  the 
glory. 

Extracts  from  a  Report  of  a  Praise  and  Testimony  Meeting, 

Held  by  Rev.  John  Alex.  Dowie  and  "Wife  at  the  G-rand 

Opera  House,  San  Francisco,  Lord's  Day 

Evening,  October  28,  1888. 

[This  meeting  was  held  at  the  beginning  of  the  third  week  of  a  month's  Mis- 
sion, and  will  be  followed  by  the  usual  closing  Praise  and  Testimony  Meeting  on 
Lord's  day,  November  11,  when  many  others  who  have  been  healed  through  faith 
in  Jesus  will  witness  for  him.  There  were  about  one  thousand  two  hundred  per- 
sons present,  and  the  meeting  lasted  from  7:45  to  11: 15  p.  m,,  and  was  followed 
by  an  after-meeting,  which  was  attended  by  some  hundreds.  A  number  of  per- 
sons sought  and  found  salvation,  amongst  them  a  man  of  above  forty  years  old, 
who  knelt  and  prayed  for  the  first  time  in  his  life.  Up  to  the  date  of  writing 
these  lines  (November  7)  147  persons  have  openly  sought  salvation  in  the  Mission, 
and  many  have  been  healed. — j.  a.  d,] 

Keported  by  G.  H.  Hawes,  320  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  the  hearty  singing  of  hymn  162  from  "Gospel 
Hymns," — 

**My  hope  is  built  on  nothing  less 
Than  Jesus'  blood  and  righteousness." 

Mrs.  Dowio  then  read  the  67th  Psalm.  "God  be  merciful  unto  us,  and  bless 
us;  and  cause  hisace  to  shine  upoa  us." 

Mr.  Dowie  then  offered  prayer,  presenting  requests  from  many  that  were 
sick. 

Dr.  Dowie  said  : — 

Beloved  Friends:  I  desire  to  say  that  to-night  we  have  many  testimo- 
nies, some  of  which  have  only  just  reached  me  since  I  came  upon  the  platform 
some  of  them  in  writing  and  some  are  present  here  to  speak  for  themselves,  and 
as  the  number  is  so  very  great,  it  would  not  be  wise  in  me  to  take  up  much  time. 

My  Secretary  has  handed  me  a  list  of  those  who  have  given  in  their  names 
as  being  prepared  to  testify,  and  there  are  thirty  on  this  platform,  besides  others 
in  the  audience-  With  the  single  exception  of  one  person  who  is  now  present, 
I  have  not  personally  invited  a  single  person  to  testify;  their  testimony  is  per- 
fectly voluntary,  and  they  have  come  forward  of  their  own  accord,  and  they  are 
fully  responsible  before  God  and  man  for  their  own  testimonies. 

I  would  like  to  say  a  very  few  words  in  introducing  the  Testimony  Meeting. 
I  cannot  to-night  speak  as  I  would  fain  do  concerning  the  work  generally,  but  I 
want  to  say  this  firbt  of  all:  This  Mission  is  a  mission  of  healing  through  faith  in 
Jesus  Christ  alone.  There  is  not  one  person  either  here  in  this  audience  or  any- 
where else  in  this  country,  or  in  the  wide  world,  whom  I  luave  healed.  I  have 
never  healed  anybody;  1  never  have  attempted  to  heal  anybody,  and  there  isnot 
one  here  to 'night  to  testify  to  my  healint;  power.  There  is  some  misunderstand- 
ing concerning  this  matter.  It  does  not  exist  in  the  hearts  of  those  who  haye 
attended  our  ministry,  but  in  the  minds  of  those  who  have  not  been  present  at 
all.  I  want  to  say  most  distinctly  and  clearly  at  the  very  beginning,  that  those 
who  are  healed  are  here  to  confess  Christ  as  their  Healer.  I  have  been  used  in- 
strumentally  in  teaching,  in  preaching,  and  as  the  instrument  of  the  healing;  but 
the  teaching  is  not  mine ;  it  is  the  teaching  of  the  Teacher  of  teachers.     The 


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preaching  is  not  mine,  but  it  is  the  gospel  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  The  healing 
is  not  mine  any  more  than  the  salvation  which  has  attended  this  ministry;  the 
healing  is  the  healing  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Make  no  mistake  about  it ; 
whatever  you  may  have  read,  or  thought,  or  imagined,  or  seen  written,  there  is 
no  living  being  in  the  world  who  has  ever  heard  me  say  I  have  healed  ;  there  is 
not  a  line  from  my  pen — and  I  have  written  many  thousands  of  lines  in  my  time, 
many  of  which  have  been  widely  printed — which  would  warrant  anyone  in  making 
such  an  accusation.     Christ  is  the  Healer  and  Hif  alone. 

I  am  here  upon  a  Mission.  lam  just  on  my  way — although  I  am  tarrying 
long  at  the  Golden  Gate— through  your  great  continent,  and  I  hope  to  pass 
through  Canada  and  England,  and  by  and  by  to  return  to  my  old  home  in  Aus- 
tralia. Then  I  hope  again,  after  a  short  tarrying,  to  go  farther  away  to  the  East, 
if  the  Lord  permits,  and  back  again  around  through  the  West.  If  the  Lord  will, 
I  give  Him  gladly  the  next  ten  years  of  my  life  to  carry  His  Gospel  of  Healing  to 
every  place  I  can  reach. 

Now  you  understand  I  am  not  here  to  establish  a  sect  or  a  church  organiza- 
tion, but  to  minister  to  the  whole  "Household  of  Faith  "  without  reference  to 
denomination.  1  don't  know  Baptists,  I  do  not  know  Presbyterians,  I  do  not 
know  Episcopalians — I  do  not  know  you  by  these  names;  I  know  you  by  one 
name,  by  the  Name  that  is  above  every  name,  the  name  of  Christ,  our  Lord.  I 
thank  God  that  I  am  enabled  to  minister  without  any  fear,  without  any  doubt,  in 
this  beautiful  work.  I  thank  God,  too,  it  is  without  money  and  without  price. 
I  am  trusting  God  for  everything  connected  with  this  work,  and  what  we  have 
received  we  freely  give,  as  we  have  freely  received. 

I  think  perhaps  it  would  be  well  first  of  all  before  asking  anyone  to  speak 
regarding  healing  through  human  touch,  to  give  you  some  illustrations  from  th6 
testimonies  I  hold  in  my  hand  of — 

Healing  without  Any  Human  Touch, 

In  direct  answer  to  prayer  during  this  present  Mission.  If  we  were  to  attempt 
to  give  you  anything  like  a  full  account  of  such  cases  of  direct  answer  to  prayer 
oflfered  upon  our  platform  for  those  whom  we  never  saw,  and  some  of  whom  we 
have  never  seen  ^o  this  day,  it  would  take  all  the  night.  I  will  give  you  some  of 
those  I  have  in  my  hand. 

Healing  of  a  Ten- Year-Old  Boy  from  Blood  Poisoning,  etc. 

On  October  17,  I  received  and  pressHted  to  the  Lord  in  prayer  the  following 
petition : — 

"Dear  Sir:  Having  been  myself  cured  most  wonderfully  at  one  of  your 
meetings  last  July  through  faith  in  Jesus,  without  any  human  touch;  and  being 
sure  that  God  does  hear  and  does  answer  prayer,  will  you  ask  the  Christians  to^ 
day  to  pray  for  a  dear  boy  aged  ten  years,  who  has  blood  poisoning  and  a  very 
bad  eye.  The  little  fellow  is  a  great  sufferer.  His  parents  are  believers,  but  I 
fear  not  as  fully  resting  in  Christ  as  I  could  wish.  I  believe  Christ  can  do  with 
him  as  he  did  with  the  Centurion's  sick  servant — heal  him  without  bringing  him 
here  to  the  meeting,  which  it  is  difficult  to  do.  Please  pray  for  him,  for  earthly 
physicians  can  do  him  no  good.         I  am  yours, 

'  'A  Believer  in  the  Great  Healer.  " 

This  was  an  anonymous  petition.  Exactly  a  week  later  I  received  another 
letter,  thanking  G  od  for  the  answer,  in  which  she  said  that  she  had  waited,  so  that 
there  might  be  plenty  of  time  to  test  the  healing  before  writing  me.  She  is  here 
to-night.  Her  name  is  Mrs.  Barnes,  513  Hayes  Street,  City.  Her  note  reads  as 
follows: — 

"  Dear  Sir:  You  will  remember  that  prayer  was  asked  last  Wednesday, 
October  17,  for  a  boy  aged  ten  years  who  had  blood  poisoning,  and  such  trouble 
with  his  eyes  that  he  had  to  be  kept  in  a  dark  room  and  was  so  sick  that  he  was 
unable  to  walk  about.  To-day  the  little  boy  is  perfectly  well ;  he  can  see  with- 
out even  a  shade  over  his  eyes.  His  face  is  all  well  and  clean,  and  he  is  able  to 
run  around  better  than  he  has  done  for  a  long  time.     I  feel  sure  Christ  has  fully 


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answered  prayer.  Three  other  doctors  did  him  no  good;  I  never  saw  such  a 
wonderful  change  in  any  cliild  in  a  week  in  my  life.  He  is  my  own  grandchild. 
Yours  very  respectfully."  It  is  signed  by  Mrs.  Barnes,  I  will  just  ask  the  sis- 
ter to  verify  that  testimony. 

Mrs.  Barnes,  wlio  was  sitting  upon  the  platform,  immediately  arose  and 
said,  *'  That  is  perfectly  true,  every  word." 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  a  Baby  in  Answer  to  Prayer. 

The  next  case  of  direct  answer  to  prayer  which  I  select,  is  one  written  from 
1123  Greenwich  Street,  City,  dated  the  27th  of  October — that  is,  yesterday. 

"Dear  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie:  Will  you  praise  the  I-ord  with  me  for  the 
complete  restoration  of  a  dear  child  for  whom  you  prayed  in  the  meeting  of  the 
17th  of  this  month?  The  child  was  very  sick;  she  seemed  to  us  to  be  dying. 
She  could  not  support  any  food  whatever.  At  the  same  hour,  the  same  moment^ 
almost,  that  you  were  praying  in  the  Opera  House  she  was  healed  in  my  own 
home;  and,  without  changing  any  food,  she  supports  everything  she  could  not 
support  before.  Every  day  she  grows  brighter.  I  have  not  written  my  thanks 
before,  because  I  Wanted  to  prove  to  some  of  your  unbelieving  Varers  that  the 
child  is  healed  and  completely  and  thoroughly  restored.  As  for  jr>vself,  I  do  not 
need  the  proof,  for  I  know  what  the  Lord  doeth,  he  doeth  perfectly.  He  did  it 
in  answer  to  your  prayer.  Praise  ye  the  Lord,  the  Lord  who  rs  Jehovah,  the 
Healer  of  His  people.     Yours  in  the  Lord,  J.  L.  Boillot-Steck.  " 

If  the  sister  is  here,  will  she  stand  up.  The  lady  arose  from  the  platform, 
and  said,   "That  is  perfectly  so. " 

Immediate  Restoration  of  a  Dying  Lady  in  Answer  to 
Prayer  Only. 

Mr.  Dowie  continued:  I  have  another  testimony  from  Oakland,  A  lady 
was  supposed  to  be  dying  during  this  Mission,  and  the  Lord  healed  her  thor-. 
oughly  in  answer  to  prayer.  This  is  her  own  writing.  She  lives  on  Twenty- 
fourth  Street,  between  Adeline  and  Market  Streets,  Oakland.  This  testimony 
was  handed  me  to-night,  and  is  dated  yesterday,  October  27. 

"To  the  glory  of  our  Lord  Jesus  will  I  give  my  testimony  that  by  faith  in 
Jesus  and  prayer,  I  have  been  restored  to  health.  About  three  weeks  ago  I 
took  Vc-ry,  very  sick,  and  my  friends  did  not  believe  that  I  would  recover.  I 
thought  I  was  dying.  We  prayed,  and  we  asked  you  to  pray,  and  the  Lord 
heard  our  prayers.  On  the  very  night  you  were  praying  for  me  in  the  Opera 
House  I  was  healed  of  my  sickness,  and  I  am  now  well,  and  I  wish  to  thank  God 
and  give  Him  all  the  glory  now  and  forever.         Your  sister  in  Christ, 

"Annie  Soderstrand." 

All  those  who  know  this  lady,  and  know  of  her  healing,  will  kindly  stand 
up.  (Seven  rose  to  their  feet.  Mr.  Dowie  thanked  them,  and  said  he  was  in- 
formed that  tlie  lady  was  a  member  of  the  Swedish  Baptist  Church.  Oakland.) 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  I  do  not  know  that  it  would  be  well  forme  to  continue  this 
line  of  testimony.  I  have  a  number  of  others  in  my  hands,  but  while  there  are 
so  many  living  witnesses,  I  think  I  will  put  aside  the  letters,  and  just  ask  some 
of  the  living  witnesses  to  speak.  I  scarcely  know  where  to  begin.  I  am  sur- 
rounded by  those  whom  the  Lord  has  blest,  and  I  feel  so  thankful.  I  think  I 
shall  begin  by  asking  a  stranger  in  your  city  to  speak  first.  There  are  some  in 
your  city  now  who  have  come  from  quite  a  distance  to  this  meeting  and  been 
blessed,  and  there  is  one  brother  whose  testimony  I  am  intensely  interested  in. 
Not  that  I  count  one  healing  more  wonderful  in  some  respects  than  another, 
because  we  are  very  poor  judges  of  that;  but  this  case  has  caused  a  great  deal  of 
interest  in  San  Jose. 

It  Is  the  Case  of  Brother  C.  H.  Lathweson. 

I  hold  now  in  my  hand  a  report  of  the  praise  and  testimony  meeting  held 
at  San  Jose  on  August  20,  after  our  two  weeks'  Mission.  The  meeting  was 
held  in  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  of  which  the  Rev.  Dr.  Jewell  is 


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pastor,  Dr.  Jewell  being  present,  and  nearly  as  large  an  audience  as  there  is  here. 
Among  those  who  spoke  that  evening  I  called  upon  my  friend  and  brother,  Dr. 
Bishop,  an  eminent  doctor  in  San  Jose  He  testified  to  the  healing  of  two  of 
his  patients.  One  of  these  is  with  us  to-night.  He  said  that  this  brother  who 
is  here  was  beyond  all  question  healed;  that  his  case  was  known  to  a  large 
number  of  persons  present,  and  I  am  quoting  what  Dr.  Bishop  said  from  the  short- 
hand writer's  report,  taken  by  my  friend  G.  H.  Hawes,  320  Sansome  Street,  who  is 
reporting  this  meeting.  This  document  which  I  hold  in  my  hand  is  a  very 
beautiful  type-written  report  of  that  meeting.  He  gives  me  here  Dr.  Bishop's 
words,  and  the  doctor  says  he  is  delighted  to  be  able  to  testify  for  the  honor  of 
Christ;  that  he  knows  these  two  patients,  and  that  they  were  great  sufferers, 
and  that  they  have  been  healed.  After  mentioning  another  case,  which  is  not 
present  to-night,  and  which  I  shall  not  refer  to,  he  says  he  met  Brother  Lathweson 
first  about  five  years  ago,  when  he  moved  to  San  Jose.  Dr.  Bishop  was  not  at 
first  called  in  to  treat  him,  because  his  case  was  considered  to  be  beyond  the  reach 
of  any  human  agency;  but  about  two  years  ago  he  was  called  in  and  found  him 
suffering  the  most  agonizing  pain  He  had  trouble  of  the  spine  and  spinal  cord, 
and  had  convulsive  movements  continuously  in  all  his  limbs;  he  was  a  great  suf- 
ferer; he  did  not  examine  the  cancer  very  closely,  but  he  knew  he  had  heart  disease 
of  a  very  bad  type.  He  says  that  Lathweson  acts  like  a  perfectly  well  man.  He 
says  he  likes  to  give  this  testimony  because  it  is  to  the  honor  of  Christ.  He  fur- 
ther says:  "I  believe  these  persons  were  healed  instantly,  as  they  state,  and  I 
think  we  must  all  admit  Christ  has  power  on  earth  not  only  to  forgive  sins,  but  to 
heal  the  body. " 

Our  Brother  Lathweson  has  been  a  member  of  the  Church  of  God  for  many 
years  He  was  a  sufferer  for  thirty  years  from  spinal  injury,  from  heart  disease, 
and  from  a  cancer  that  was  diagnosed  by  Dr  Nichols,  of  Rochester,  a  number 
of  years  ago,  as  cancer  of  the  stomach.  He  suffered  continuous  agony.  He  will 
tell  you  himself  how  the  Lord  instantly  healed  him.  1  will  just  call  upon  him 
to  tell  you  the  story  in  his  own  way.  You  will  kindly  remember  he  is  a  German, 
and  not  accustomed  to  addressing  a  large  audience.  You  will  get  the  testimony 
from  him  and  all  here  in  a  simple  way,  showing  just  how  they  felt  about  it,  and 
what  the  Lord  did  for  them,  and  how  they  were  previously.  I  will  ask  him  to 
put  it  in  his  own  words.  Dear  Mr.  Lathweson,  will  you  now  step  forward  and 
tell  us  what  the  Lord  did  for  you,  and  how  He  had  mercy  upon  you.  Come,  my 
brother. 

Mr.  Lathweson's  Story- 
Mr.  Lathweson  then  stepped  forward  and  spoke  as  follows.     The  reporter 
noticed  a  marked  improvement  in  his  appearance  since  he  saw  him  testify  in  the 
closing  meeting  of  the  San  Jose  Mission. 

"My  Dear  Brethren  and  Sisters:  If  you  are  very  quiet  I  try  to  speak 
so  loud  as  possible,  so  as  to  make  everybody  understand  what  I  mean  and  what 
I  say.  First  of  all  I  got  to  say,  'What  a  friend  we  got  in  Jesus;  what  a  friend 
we  got  in  Jesus.'  Oh,  my  friends,  this  good  Friend  in  Heaven,  my  Father  in 
Heaven,  through  Jesus  Christ,  he  was  the  best  Friend  I  ever  know  in  mine  suf- 
fering in  mine  last  thirty  years.  I  suffered  as  I  never  saw  anybody  in  the  world 
suffer,  and  I  never  like  to  see  anybody  suffer  that  way.  God  forbid  that  mine 
eyes  ever  see  such  a  thing.  In  mine  suffering  I  beg  God  many,  many  times — 
hundred  times,  'O  Lord,  take  me  away,  if  possible;  I  can't  stand  it  1  don't 
see  any  good  work  of  me.  I  don't  know  what  I  am  doing  in  this  world.  I  don't 
see  any  good  work  of  mine  hands.  Lord,  take  me  away.'  God  shake  his  head,, 
and  don't  answer  me.  He  don't  take  me  away;  but  that  was  not  all.  I  see  that 
He  was  not  pleased  to  take  me  away  out  of  this  world;  I  has  to  pray  another 
story :  *  Lord,  if  possible,  give  me  patience,  patience,  patience,  and  peace  and  a 
quiet  life,'  Then  my  Father  was  so  quick  to  drop  down  all  the  patience  I 
need,  and  all  I  want. 

"  And  now  them  thirty  years  is  gone.  Thank  God  in  Heaven,  them  thirty 
years  is  finished.  Thank  God  in  Heaven  he  give  me  so  much  grace  and  patience, 
and  that  it  is  now  finished.  Thank  God  through  Jesus  Christ  that  this  my  dear 
brother  [the  speaker  here  turned  to  Mr.  Dowie,  who  had  fervently  exclaimed. 


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*' Praise  the  Lord;"  and  with  tears  streaming  from  his  eyes,  lovingly  embraced 
him  The  audience  was  deeply  moved  as  they  looked  upon  the  pathetic  scene] 
Ood  fetch  him  to  San  Jose,  to  lead  me  on — with  his  dear  wife — lead  me  on,  and  tell 
me  the  good  story  that  Jesus  Christ  just  now  is  able  to  forgive  sins  and  to  heal 
all  diseases.  That  is  the  story  satisfy  me,  and  I  came  just  as  I  was,  and  I  go  and 
throw  myself  in  the  arms  of  Jesus,  and  say,  '  Lord  take  me.'  And  my  Jesus  was 
waiting — oh,  how  anxious  he  was  waiting !  and  mine  heart  was  ready  to  receive 
It;  and  so  he  came  down  so  low  to  his  little  one  that  he  healed  the  body.  And 
that  was  not  allj  he  healed  mine  soul  wonderfully,  as  it  was  never,  never  healed 
before — mine  poor  soul.  I  never  enjoyed  such  a  rest,  such  a  peace,  such  a  religion. 
"What  shall  I  say  ?  [The  speaker  turned  inquiringly  to  Mr.  Dowie.  Mr.  Dowie 
said,  *'  Tell  about  being  at  Pacific  Grove."] 

"  My  M'ife  came  down  to  San  Jose  from  Pacific  Grove.  I  went  there  to  get  a 
little  rest  in  Pacific  Grove,  but  I  didn't  get  any  rest;  I  get  worser  and  wowser. 
So  my  wife  had  a  little  business,  and  came  back  to  San  Jose,  and  in  that  time  I 
grown  so  worse  and  so  bad  and  so  low  that  my  neighbors  was  afraid  1  would  drop 
away  any  minute;  and  they  was  going  to  watch  me.  My  wife  was  away  two  or  three 
nights,  and  they  was  going  to  watch  me  in  the  night.  I  say,  *No,  no,  just  go 
home;  I  got  a  good  watchman  in  heaven;  he  take  care  of  me.'  My  trust  was  al- 
ways fully  in  God  in  mine  greatest  agony. 

"  My  dear  wife  came  the  next  day,  and  she  was  so  sad.  She  say,  *Aint  you 
going  to  be  healed  ?  "  I  don't  know  what  to  say.  Then  I  broke  down  and  say, 
'  Oh,  mother  stop,  stop  now;  I  can't  hear  any  more.  I  go  to  San  Jose  to-morrow, 
and  if  I  got  only  one  leg  I  got  to  go. '  I  went  the  next  morning  and  my  wife  was 
afraid  I  would  drop  on  the  cars;  she  watches  me  every  minute;  every  minute  she 
watch  me  so  particular;  she  thought  I  drop  down  in  the  car  We  came  to  San 
Jose,  and  the  same  evening — oh,  my  dear  brother  [grasping  Mr.  Dowie  affection- 
ately by  the  hand]  that  evening  between  five  and  six  o'clock,  as  I  said  a  little 
while  ago,  the  dear  Saviour  came  down  and  met  me — ^met  this  poor  feller,  and 
healed  body  and  soul. " 

Mr.  Dowie  asked,  "How  long  did  it  take  to  heal  you  ?  " 

**  I  was  ready  and  Jesus  was  waiting,  audit  take  only,  I  suppose,  that  much," 
(striking  his  hands  together). 

Mr.  Dowie  said,  "Did  you  feel  it?" 
"In  that  time  it  seems  to  me  as  if  it  comes  in  here  and  roll  down;  (illustrated  by 
placing  his  hands  upon  the  upper  part  of  his  body  and  slowly  moving  them  down- 
ward.) There  was  a  hard  cancer,  liver  disease,  heart  disease,  and  spine  disease — 
God  knows  how  much  more — I  don't  like  to  tell  the  others.  I  pray  always  in  my 
greatest  agony,  '  Lord,  keep  these  poor  hands, '  because  I  have  to  work  for  mine 
living;  'Keep  mine  common  sense,  that  I  do  my  work  right.'  The  Lord  was  so 
willing,  he  keep  these  poor  hands  and  keep  common  sense,  and  so  I  keep  working. 
That  is  all  of  this  old  body  that  was  well — those  poor  hands  and  the  brain. 

"Now  I  am  here.  Now  I  am  here.  I  know  I  am  healed,  and  God  knows  it, 
and  the  angels  know  it;  the  angels  is  glad  in  Heaven;  they  had  a  great  struggle 
with  me,  for  when  I  walk  I  sink  down. " 

Mr,  Dowie  said,  "Show  us  how  you  can  walk  now." 

"  I  walk  like  a  young  man.  [He  walked  easily  up  and  down  the  stage,  and  a 
tremendous  applause  burst  forth  from  the  large  audience.]  1  feel  like  walking,  and 
I  am  pleased  to  walk  and  my  legs  don't  ache." 

"  Where  is  the  cancer?"  asked  Mr.  Dowie. 

*  *  I  have  not  asked  the  dear  Lord  in  Heaven  where  He  left  it,  but  it's  gone — 1 
don't  know  where  it's  gone  to. " 

Mr.  Dowie  then  said:  ''That  healing  occurred  over  two  months  ago,  on  Friday, 
August  10.  I  should  like  his  dear  wife  to  testify,  she  had  a  great  hand  in  his 
healing.  She  brought  him  up  to  San  Jose  from  Pacific  Grove.  Dr.  Jewell  said  to 
me,  *  One  of  my  people  is  dying  at  Pacific  Grove.'  I  received  a  petition  to  pray 
for  him.  It  was  for  this  brother.  I  got  it  through  his  wife,  and  then  I  said, 
and  others  said,  '  You  had  better  bring  him  here;'  but  some  said,  '  He  will  die  on, 
the  way.'  I  replied,  'Never  fear,  the  Lord  will  keep  him.'  As  he  says,  he 
thought  he  was  going  to  die  on  the  way;  but  the  Lord  kept  him.  I  should  like 
his  dear  wife  to  speak  for  herself;  but  she  can  speak  well  for  both.     The  Lord 


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bless  her.  Come,  dear  Mrs.  Lathweson,  yoii  tell  us  what  the  Lord  did;  I  know 
you  can,  and  we  would  like  to  have  you  do  it.  These  friends  have  been  members 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  for  about  fifteen  years." 

Mrs.  Lathweson's  Story. 

She  then  stepped  forward  and  said:  '*  I  can  testify  that  I  know  that  GocT 
has  power  to  heal,  and  that  he  heals  mine  ears;  that  I  was  deaf — pretty  near 
deaf.  I  have  to  set  on  the  front  seat  to  hear  what  the  preacher  preaches,  and 
what  I  would  not  understand,  I  have  to  ask  my  husband  what  Dr.  Jewell  was 
speaking  about.  So  I  thank  the  Lord  for  what  1  received  mine  own  self 
through  the  preaching,  through  Brother  Dowie.  I  thought  if  that  is  true  as  he 
explains  it,  that  we  can  just  grasp  it,  I  thought  I  want  my  share.  So  I  received 
my  share.     Praise  the  Lord  for  that. 

*'  So  I  talk  of  my  husband's  case.  I  know  he  was  a  sufferer  for  thirty  years. 
When  he  first  began  to  suffer  he  was  not  converted,  and  he  was  such  a  sufferer 
that  I  was  praying  hard  for  him.  I  was  afraid  if  he  goes  on,  the  pain  and  suf- 
fering would  overcome  him,  because  if  one  has  no  religion  in  their  heart  they 
have  no  power  to  overcome  such  a  sickness.  I  lay  the  whole  thing  before  the 
Lord  and  say,  'If  thou  wilt.'  I  always  say,  ^  Jf  thou  wilt.'  Brother  Dowie 
says  not  to  say  '(/"the  Lord  wilt,'  so  I  leave  the  *  if '  out  of  my  prayer  now.  He 
got  converted,  and  then  he  could  ask  God  to  help  him  to  bear  the  burden.  But 
I  have  to  see  him  suffering  year  after  year.  He  lay  on  his  bed  and  groan  all 
night  long,  and  I  don't  sleep.  It  is  not  so  easy  to  have  a  husband,  or  a  wife, 
that  is  sick  all  the  time.  I  keep  up  the  spirit;  I  never  let  him  know  I  was  sad. 
I  say,  'Father,  you  see  better  times;  don't  be  discouraged.'  He  could  hardly 
stand  the  pain,  and  he  have  to  work.  I  say,  *  Father,  Job,  he  was  a  man  like 
we  are,  and  he  was  once  poor,  and  God  know  he  was  suffering.  Every  things 
was  taken  away  from  him,  and  that  was  the  case  mit  us.  We  was  twice  stripped 
of  everytings,  and  that  was  making  it  so  much  harder  for  mine  husband,  we  was 
so  poor.     1  say,  *  Father,  the  Lord  knows  best,  and  we  see  better  times. ' 

"We  came  from  Minnesota  to  San  Jose,  and  the  people  say  he  was  so  ill, 
so  sickly,  he  would  die  on  the  road.  But  I  trust  the  Lord  would  keep  him,  and 
I  thought  he  might  be  restored,  and  that  he  might  help  me  to  raise  the  children. 
I  pray  the  Lord  to  heal  my  husband;  but  he  don't;  there  was  a  lack.  And  when 
we  come  to  Galifornia  I  thought  the  Lord  will  restore  him  now.  I  thought  he 
would  get  well;  but  he  never  did.  He  got  worse  and  worse,  until  this  summer, 
as  he  said,  when  we  went  to  Pacific  Grove.  I  said,  *  Father,  there  is  a  better 
time  coming.'  He  say,  *  Yes,  a  better  time  to  my  poor  suffering  body.'  I  says, 
*  You  don't  need  to  work;  you  have  a  better  time.'  *  Mother,'  he  says,  *  let  me 
be,  let  me  die,  and  don't  tell  me  it  is  going  to  be  better. ' 

**  I  came  from  Pacific  Grove  to  San  Jose  for  that  little  business,  and  I  hear 
that  Brother  Dowie  was  there;  and  they  ask  me  if  I  would  not  go  and  have  my 
husband  healed.  I  sat  a  few  minutes  and  said,  '  I  never  heard  of  Brother  Dowie 
that  he  heals  anybody.'  They  say,  *No,  he  don't,  but  Jesus  Christ  heals  them.' 
I  says,  *I  go  and  see  if  he  is  a  messenger  sent  from  God.'  And  I  go  ,to  the 
church,  and  hear  Brother  Dowie  preach;  and  sometimes  I  cry  and  sometimes  I 
rejoice  in  the  meeting,  and  I  thought  if  my  husband  was  sitting  there  he  would 
just  take  it  in,  and  he  would  be  healed.  So  I  sent  him  a  letter;  but  he  not 
come.  People  tell  him  that  is  not  so;  that  it  is  all  bosh;  that  we  got  no  man 
any  more  preaches  a  gospel  that  the  body  could  be  healed  through  Jesus  Christ. 
I  say,  '  I  know  better.'  I  send  for  my  husband  again,  and  then  he  don't  come. 
They  tell  him  he  shall  stay  ther^,  and  don't  spend  the  money  and  have  the 
trouble.  Then  I  thought  I  go  mine  own  self  and  get  him;  and  so  I  went. 
[A  hearty  applause  from  the  audience.]  I  thought  I  would  tease  him  a  little.  I 
say,  'Father,  why  didn't  you  come?'  *0  mother,'  he  says,  *I  couldn't,  I 
couldn't.'  'Yes  you  could;  the  Lord  would  help  you.'  I  said,  *  Do  you  enjoy 
to  suffer  ?  The  Lord  would  heal  you  if  you  go. '  He  say,  *  Mother,  don't  say 
that;  you  know  better.'  But  I  thought  I  would  have  a  little  tease; iDut  then  I 
see  he  was  so  ill,  that  I  was  right  away  still.  At  five  o'clock  the  next  morning 
he  got  out  of  bed,  and  he  say,  *  Mother,  we  going  to  San  Jose,'  I  says,  *  I  know 
you  are  going  to  be  healed.'    He  says,  '  I  know  it,  too.'    I  tell  him  we  have  to 


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sacrifice;  we  have  to  do  somethings.  If  I  would  not  go  back,  or  went  home, 
then  we  wouldn't  be  here.  I  tell  you,  sisters  and  brothers,  had  me  and  my 
husband  not  believed,  we  never  would  be  healed;  and  I  believe  he  would  have 
been  in  his  grave.  Everybody  tell  me  he  couldn't  live  that  way  any  more,  he 
jerking  and  twisting  and  turning  so,  and  shaking  and  suffering  so  much.  I 
praise  the  Lord  we  got  such  a  Saviour  that  comes  down  on  this  earth  and  heal 
the  body.  What  a  blessing  I  receive  in  my  soul,  you  don't  know.  I  feel  some- 
times I  should  go  out  and  tell  all  the  sick  people,  'Go  to  the  Iiord  and  be  healed.' 
Oh,  I  feel  so  happy  in  my  heart.     Pray  the  Lord  that  we  be  faithful  to  Him." 

As  this  ^ood  old  soul,  the  quiet  martyr  and  hero  of  over  a  quarter  of  a 
century  pf  pam,  took  her  seat,  the  audience,  which  had  been  listening  with  the 
keenest  sympathy  and  attention,  made  the  building  ring  with  a  tremendous 
applause,  as  though  each  one  present  were  eager  to  give  expression  to  their 
feelings. 

Are  the  Healings  Permanent?    The  First  Case  in  America 
After  More  Than  Four  Months. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  The  lirst  case  of  healing  in  which  I  was  used  in  this  country 
is  a  very  interesting  one.  I  arrived  on  the  Pacific  mail  steamship,  Mariposa^  with 
my  beloved  wife  and  children  on  the  9th  of  June.  On  the  16th  of  June,  seven 
days  after  I  arrived  here — I  had  a  great  many  visitors  at  my  rooms  at  the  Palace 
Hotel — this  lady  came  in.  I  am  sorry  I  have  not  got  my  American  collection  of 
crutches  here  to-night;  I  intended  to  have  them;  they  are  in  the  cellar  of  my 
friend,  Mr.  Craig;  but  we  shall  have  them  here  this  day  fortnight,  when  we  will 
have  another  Testimony  Meeting.  This  dear  sister,  Mrs.  Brown,  came  in  upon  a 
crutch  with  a  daughter,  who  is  now  by  her  side  on  this  platform.  She  had  been 
waiting  a  long  time  in  the  corridor.  I  was  about  to  go  away,  thinking  I  should  like 
to  get  some  lunch,  for  it  was  very  far  on  in  the  day.  I  did  not  need  to  ask  why 
she  came;  I  could  see  she  was  suffering,  in  every  line  of  her  face.  We  said  a  few 
words  to  her.  I  have  an  account  of  the  case  in  my  little  magazine,  "Leaves  of 
Healing,"  published  in  August  last.  I  asked  her  if  she  was  a  child  of  God.  She 
said  she  was  not  sure.  We  went  into  the  matter,  and  she  gave  her  heart  wholly 
to  the  Lord.  I  asked  her  to  give  her  foot  to  the  Lord.  Drs.  Lane,  Parkinson, 
and  Ewing,  of  Sacramento,  had  all  said  that  her  left  foot  must  be  operated  upon, 
and  there  was  danger  that  it  would  have  to  be  taken  off;  that  a  part  of  the  ankle 
bone  must  be  taken  out.  It  was  what  they  call  a  *  bone  felon, '  and  the  disease 
was  in  the  ankle.  She  had  suffered  for  two  years,  and  at  the  advanced  age  of 
sixty-eight  years ,  she  felt  she  would  rather  die  than  have  the  operation.  She 
heard  of  our  coming;  she  read  the  account  of  the  Chronicle's  interview  with  me, 
and  she  said,  "  That  man  is  either  a  great  fraud  or  a  man  of  God,"  Her  husband 
said,  "I  believe  the  latter."  She  came  down  from  Sacramento;  she  told  me  her 
case;  she  found  the  Lord  in  my  room  as  her  Saviour.  Then  I  laid  hands  upon 
her  foot,  and  she  was  just  instantly  and  perfectly  healed.  That  was  June  16, 
and  it  is  now  October  28.  That  was  the  first  case  in  which  I  was  used  in  this 
country,  and  she  is  here  from  Sacramento  to-night,  to  tell  the  story  for  herself. 
Come,  dear  sister,  tell  us  all  about  it.  It  is  something  to  face  so  many  hundreds 
of  people,  I  know,  but  the  Lord  will  help  and  bless  you." 
Mrs.  Brown,  who  looked  in  splendid  health,  said  : — 

"I  was  sick  with  rheumatism  about  seven  years,  and  then  about  a  year  and 
one-half  ago  I  was  taken  with  a  dreadful  pain  in  that  hip  ;  at  first  it  run  down  to 
the  foot,  to  the  heel.  I  suffered  that  way  for  some  three  or  four  months — I 
could  not  say  positively  how  long  it  was;  the  suffering  was  great.  I  sent  for  Dr. 
Lane,  and  he  came.  In  the  first  place,  he  made  inquiries  about  my  foot, — what 
was  the  matter  with  it,  and  looked  at  it,  and  pronounced  it  a  bone  felon.  Then 
he  wanted  to  know  if  I  had  money  to  pay  him — that  was  the  next  thing — to  at- 
tend to  it.  I  told  him  I  had  not.  Now,  this  is  Dr.  Lane  of  Sacramento.  *  Well, ' 
ne  says,  'that  is  a  year's  job,  and  you  have  no  money  to  pay  me;  now  go  to  the 
hospital ;  that  is  the  place  for  you.'  I  naturally  thanked  him,  and  said,  '  Well, 
I  will  see  about  it;  maybe  I  will  go.'  He  said,  *I  will  send  the  city  doctor  around 
to  see  you*'    I  thanked  him,  and  he  did  so.     When  he  came  he  looked  at  my  foot 


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and  said,  '  I  think  that  is  a  bone  felon  on  your  heel.     The  best  you  can  do  is  to 

fo  to  the  hospital;  that  is  the  place  for  you. '  I  thanked  him  and  said,  'AH  right; 
will  see;  maybe  I  will  go  there.'  Then  I  sent  for  Dr.  Ewing,  and  ho  came  and 
examined  my  foot,  and  he  says,  'Well,  it  is  a  bone  felon;  your  foot  is  all  ulcer- 
ated; the  heel  bone  is  decaying.  The  best  thing  you  can  do  is  to  have  an  opera- 
tion performed.'  I  said,  I  am  not  able,  in  the  first  place,  to  have  an  operation 
performed.'  He  said,  'Never  mind  that;  I  will  perform  the  operation.'  Well,  I 
did  not  say  I  would  not  have  it  done.  He  went  away  and  he  came  back  in  a 
few  days  without  my  sending  for  him.  He  offered  to  perform  the  operation 
again.  That  was  Monday;  and  he  said  on  the  Wednesday  following  he  would 
come  around  and  bring  some  physicians  along  with  him,  and  would  perform  the 
operation  for  nothing;  '  for,' he  said,  'I  like  to  see  the  blood  flow.'  Well,  that 
disgusted  me.  I  said,  '  We  will  see  on  Wednesday  how  it  will  be , '  So,  on  Wednes- 
day he  came,  without  my  sending  for  him.  I  told  him  that  I  had  finally  con- 
cluded that  I  could  not  stand  the  operation,  and  did  not  think  I  was  able  to  go 
through  with  it ;  that  I  would  rather  die  with  my  foot  in  that  fix  than  to  die 
and  have  it  operated  upon;  that  I  knew  it  would  kill  me — knew  I  could  not  stand 
it.     He  insisted,  but  I  told  him  that  I  did  not  want  it  done. 

"A  few  days  after  that,  I  think  it  was,  we  read  in  the  Chronicle  that  Brother 
Dowie  was  here.  I  said  to  my  husband,  'Well,  I  am  going  down  to-morrow 
morning.'  He  said  at  first,  *  I  don't  see  what  you  are  going  for.'  I  said,  *  Well, 
I  am  going  to  see  the  doctor  ;  if  there  is  anything  in  it,  I  would  like  to  have  the 
benefit  from  him,  or,  from  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  through  him.'  He  says,  'You 
have  no  faith;  you  don't  belong  to  no  church;  so  1  don't  see  hardly  any  sense  in 
your  going. ' 

"  'Well,'  I  said  'I  am  going  to-morrow  morning.' 

"  He  says,  'How  can  you  go  ?  You  can't  walk  only  with  a  crutch,  and  how 
are  you  going  to  get  into  the  hack  or  on  to  the  train  ?' 

"I  said,  '  You  will  help  me,  and  the  hackman  will  help  me,  and  I  think  I 
can  find  somebody  down  there,  and  with  your  help  I  can  get  on  the  train.' 

"  So  the  next  morning  I  got  up  at  4  o'clock,  and  it  took  me  till  half  past  five 
to  stand  well  enough  to  dress  myself,  and  I  had  to  have  help  to  dress.  I  got  into 
a  hack,  and  I  came  down  here,  and  I  went  to  see  Brother  Dowie  at  the  Palace 
Hotel;  but  I  didn't  think  I  was  any  Christian;  don't  think  I  am  much  of  one 
yet — that  is  honest;  I  think  I  lack  a  great  deal  of  being  a  thorough  Christian  at 
any  rate.  He  prayed  for  me.  Thank  the  great  God  that  I  was  sent  to  him.  I 
feel  grateful  to  my  God  and  to  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord  that  I  was  sent  to  him;  and 
I  was  healed  in — I  could  not  say  how  quick — after  he  prayed  for  me.  Him  and 
his  dear  wife  prayed  for  me,  sinner  as  I  was,  and  I  was  healed — well,  in  an  in- 
stant. He  told  me  to  get  up  and  walk,  and  I  walked  right  off,  and  I  can  walk 
now,  and  I  am  pretty  old — not  so  very  pretty,  but  old.  (She  walked  easily 
across  the  stage,  and  the  audience  cheered  with  great  enthusiasm.)  From  that 
day  to  this  I  have  never  felt  any  pain  like  that  I  had  before,  nor  any  pain  in 
that  foot,  and  it  is  quite  well;  it  is  very  well.  On  Christmas  day  at  3  o'clock 
in  the  morning  I  will  be  sixty-nine  years  of  age." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  Didn't  you  give  your  heart  to  Jesus  ?  Didn't  you  tell  me 
you  had  given  your  heart  to  Jesus  before  I  prayed  for  your  healing?" 

She  replied  "Yes,  I  did  it." 

"  Then  it  is  done,"  said  Mr.  Dowie. 

The  lady  then  added  to  her  previous  testimony,  as  follows: — 

"I  have  a  word  more  to  say.  Since  that  I  have  cooked  for  nine  persons 
steady;  got  up  at  five  o'clock  every  morning,  done  the  washing  for  nine  beds  and 
all  the  cooking  and  the  work  of  the  house.  I  am  well  and  healthy  so  far  as  I 
know. "    (A  hearty  applause  all  over  the  house. ) 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "That  is  the  first  case  of  healing  in  this  country,  and  it 
remains  perfect  to  this  day.  We  have  heard  talk  about  Divine  healings  not 
standing;  there  is  the  first.  If  they  do  not  stand,  it  is  not  because  there  is  any 
failure  in  God's  work  of  healing:  the  failure  is  in  the  person  healed.  Let  our 
aged  sister's  story  be  a  lesson  to  some  who  '  think  themselves  to  be  something, 
when  they  are  nothing. '  She  had  no  opinion  of  herself,  and,  therefore,  the  Lord 
liealed,  and  the  Lord  keeps  her." 


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The  Little  Boy  Who  Was  Bhnd  from  Birth. 

"I  have  a  little  boy  here  who  had  been  blind  from  birth,  and  he  got  his  sight 
on  July  4.  There  is  a  very  widespread  and  false  rumor  that  he  is  as  blind  as 
he  was  before,  and  I  am  going  to  show  him  to  you  here  to-night.  I  would  like 
to  say  a  word  about  the  case. 

"I  want  the  boy  that  was  blind  to  be  seen,  and  to  give  you  a  few  words  about 
himself.  Now,  there  are  numbers  of  cases  of  healing  which  do  not  seem  to  be 
just  as  perfect  as  one  would  like  to  see;  and  let  me  say  here,  there  is  a  general 
impression  that  divine  healing  of  necessity  must  be  immediately  perfect  and  per- 
manent. That  is  not  the  case.  Even  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  himself  had  some 
healings  that  were  gradual.  A  man  at  Bethsaida  was  blind;  the  Lord  laid  his 
hands  upon  him,  and  he  saw  men  as  trees  walking.  His  vision  was  imperfect. 
The  word  says  that  *  after  that '  the  Lord  met  him  again  *  and  He  put  His  hands 
again  upon  his  eyes,  and  made  him  look  up;  and  he  was  restored  and  saw  every 
man  clearly.'  Now,  'after  that'  in  Scripture  may  mean  not  only  an  hour  or  a 
day  or  a  month,  but  it  may  cover  years.  Now,  it  does  not  say  how  long  it  was 
'after  that'  first  laying  on  of  hands  that  our  Lord  met  the  man  again;  but  it 
does  not  matter  if  it  was  a  day  or  an  hour  or  a  week.  It  established  the  principle 
that  even  through  our  Lord's  own  hands  there  may  be  an  imperfect  healing,  not 
because  He  heals  imperfectly,  but  because  the  faith  of  the  recipient  is  imperfect. 
The  word  of  our  Lord  is,  *  As  thou  hast  believed,  so  be  it  done  unto  thee. '  Take, 
for  instance,  the  two  testimonies  which  we  have  just  listened  to.  Mr.  Lath- 
weson  believes  in  an  instantaneous  and  permanent  healing;  Mrs.  Brown  does  the 
same,  and  they  both  receive  according  to  their  faith.  This  little  boy,  a  fatherless 
little  boy,  without  previous  tuition,  and  his  dear  mother  having  a  hard  fight  to 
get  a  living,  comes  and  receives  an  immediate  but  an  imperfect  healing.  I  did  not 
understand  why  he  did  not  receive  perfect  restoration  of  sight,  but  his  mother 
told  me  the  reason  afterwards.  She  said  when  she  took  the  boy  to  me  she  prayed 
that  the  restoration  of  his  sight  might  be  gradual.  She  got  what  she  asked  for. 
I  have  not  seen  the  little  fellow  for  some  months  until  yesterday,  having  been 
away  from  San  Francisco  on  ^Mission.  It  was  publicly  stated  that  this  little  boy 
had  lost  what  he  had  received  from  the  Lord,  and,  therefore,  I  asked  his  mother 
to  bring  him  here  to  night. 

"Our  sister  and  the  boy  testified  on  the  evening  of  July  9,  at  our  first  Testi- 
mony Meeting,  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  hall  of  this  city,  that  this  little  boy  had  been 
blind  from  birth.  These  are  her  v/ords:  (Mr.  Dowie  reads  from  the  short-hand 
report  of  that  meeting.)  'My  little  boy,  Georgie,  has  been  afflicted  from  birth 
with  blindness.  Three  years  ago  an  operation  was  performed  by  Dr.  Barcon,  of 
this  city,  and  he  was  able  to  relieve  his  sight  to  that  extent  that  he  could  distin- 
guish day  from  night,  and  bright  colors — I  think  red  and  black.  For  ten  years 
he  was  unable  to  walk  without  being  led.  He  never  saw  an  object,  so  far  as  we 
know,  during  these  ten  years — not  a  single  object — to  know  what  it  was.' 

"  'Since  attending  this  Mission,  Jesus  has  restored  his  sight  almost  entirely. 
He  can  now  walk  alone,  see  houses,  chimneys,  and  small  objects  very  readily. 
He  can  also  see  print  of  large  size,  and  it  can  be  read  by  him — something  I  never 
expected  to  see  him  do.  My  little  boy  is  bright  and  happy  now,  and  gives  God 
all  the  glory.     Praise  his  name  forever. ' 

"  *I  was,'  also  adds  the  writer,  Mrs.  Lula  Ritchville,  1241  Mission  Street, 
*  instantly  cured  of  internal  hemorrhage  of  some  weeks'  standing  without  any 
laying  on  of  hands,  at  the  first  meeting  I  attended. ' 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "Now,  Georgie,  come  along;  I  want  to  show  you  to  the  people 
again.  N  ow,  stand  by  the  light.  Now,  here  is  the  little  boy  who  was  blind  from 
birth.  This  bunch  of  flowers  I  hold  in  my  hand  he  has  never  seen  before,  and  I 
will  ask  him  to  pick  out  the  colors.     Georgie,  did  Jesus  give  you  your  sight? 

"Yes  sir,"  replied  the  boy. 

When? 

"July  4th." 

You  bad  never  seen  an  object  in  your  life,  had  you,  to  know  what  it  was? 

"No." 

He  could  just  see  darkness  and  light;  tell  if  somebody  passed  in  front  of  him; 


OF  TH* 

XJNIVEHSITY 

he  had  to  be  led  about  by  the  hand.  Did  you  ever  see  the  color  of  a  flower 
previous  to  July  4,  Georgie? 

"No." 

I  want  you  to  tell  all  these  colors,  every  one  of  them;  put  your  hand  upon 
them,  80  that  the  people  can  see  that  you  touch  the  colors. 

(Pointing  to  the  colors,  the  boy  said,  and  correctly)  "There  is  a  sort  of 
reddish  white;  there  is  white;  another  white." 

Find  me  a  very  bright  red. 

"There  is  blue,  and  there  is  bright  red." 

Find  me  some  green. 

•*  There  is  green. " 

Yes. 

" Tliere  is  another  white." 

He  has  named  and  touched  all  the  colors.  The  Lord  has  given  the  boy  sight. 
(Applause.)  Now,  wicked  persons  have  said  this  boy  is  blind.  He  does  not 
know  what  1  am  going  to  show  him.  What  is  that?  (holding  up  a  knife  in  front 
of  the  boy). 

"  Oh,  it  is  a  knife." 

What  is  that?  (holding  up  a  watch). 

'A  watch." 

Which  side? 

"  The  back."     (Clapping  of  hands  all  over  the  audience.) 

You  can  read  big  letters,  can't  you? 

"Yes,  sir;  some." 

Did  Jesus  save  you? 

"  Yes,  sir." 

And  did  you  give  your  heart  to  him? 

"Yes,  sir." 

And  can  you  see  just  as  well  as  you  did  July  4th? 

♦*  Yes  sir." 

He  picks  out  all  the  big  letters.  It  is  a  peculiar  fact  that  this  boy's  sight  is 
not  better  than  when  he  lirst  received  it;  but  he  is  in  an  asylum  amongst  the 
blind,  and  I  do  not  wonder.  It  is  not  right  that  those  who  can  see  should  be 
amongst  the  blind;  and  I  hope  God  will  open  up  the  way  for  this  dear  mother,  and 
provide  some  other  way. 

Turning  to  the  mother,  Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  This  boy  was  born  blind?" 

"  Yes,  sir.'' 

Does  he  see  the  same  as  he  did  when  he  first  got  his  sight? 

"Yes,  sir." 

Do  you,  j'ourself,  retain  your  healing? 

'  *  I  certainly  do.  I  never  have  lost  my  healing,  nor  has  my  son.  I  do  not 
believe  that  God  is  such  a  God  as  to  go  back  on  His  word.    May  God  be  glorified." 

"  There  are  quite  a  number  of  persons  who  have  said  that  boy  is  just  as  blind 
as  he  was.  I  do  not  know  his  antecedents ;  his  mother  says  he  was  blind  from 
his  birth.  His  neighbors  say  so,  and  everybody  who  knows  him  says  so.  All  of 
those  present  who  saw  this  boy  when  he  was  blind,  please  rise.  [Mr.  Dowie 
counted  twelve,  and  some  one  on  the  platform  said  there  were  persons  in  the  gal- 
lery who  were  overlooked.]  Supposing  that  this  boy  had  not  been  blind,  I  would 
not  be  to  blame  because  people  said  he  was  blind.  But  he  was  blind;  he  could 
not  distinguish  anyone  or  anything;  the  Lord  gave  him  his  sight,  and  I  want  you 
to  pray  that  the  Lord  will  perfect  it  speedily.  [Amens  from  the  audience.]  We 
shall  now  take 

Another  Case  That  Was  Healed   in  the  First  San  Fran- 
ciscan Mission, 

Because  it  is  important  that  we  should  gi^e  some  testimony  from  those  who  have 
been  standing  a  little  while.  Among  those  who  testified  in  the  first  Testimony 
Meeting  was  Miss  Wilcox.  She  was  ill  for  many  years.  She  came  to  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  Hall  on  her  cratches;  she  received  the  word;  she  laid  down  her  crutches 
and  prayed,  and  she  walked  away  healed  and  saved. " 
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Miss  Wilcox  Confirms  Her  Testimony. 

Miss  Wilcox  said:  "I  give  God  all  the  glory.  I  am  healed  through  and 
by  the  precious  blood  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  he  has  cleansed  me  from  all 
sin.  I  was  sick  with  this  last  trouble  that  was  in  my  ankles  four  years  and 
four  months;  two  years,  eleven  months  and  four  days  I  was  on  crutches.  And  a 
little  over  a  year,  part  of  the  time,  I  was  not  able  to  be  on  crutches;  I  was  in  bed. 
On  the  second  day  of  July  last,  I  instantly  received  strength  to  walk,  at  the  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  Hall.  I  had  not  worn  a  shoe,  to  amount  to  anything,  for  three  years 
last  January;  and  I  talked  nine  blocks  without  a  shoe  on  my  foot,  and  carried 
my  crutches  in  my  hand  immediately  after  I  was  healed.  Praise  the  Lord!  There 
was  so  much  swelling  in  my  foot  on  the  morning  of  the  2d  of  July  that  I  could 
not  even  put  a  slipper  on;  the  next  morning,  the  3d  of  July,  I  put  on  my  shoes, 
and  have  been  wearing  them  ever  since;  and  I  have  been  praising  God  day  by  day." 

"How  long  had  you  been  ill,  altogether?  "  inquired  Mr.  Dowie. 

"  Twenty-eight  years." 

"  How  long  on  crutches?  ^' 

"  Two  years,  eleven  months  and  four  days." 

"  Where  are  the  crutches  ?  " 

"At  312  California  Street:  Mr.  Craig's  office.  Twenty-four  years  ago  I  was 
given  up  by  the  doctors  in  Iowa,  Illinois,  Missouri,  and  Kansas,  and  here  in  San 
Francisco.  The  first  doctor  I  went  to  hear  was  Dr.  Douglass  ;  he  said  nothing 
but  amputation  would  do,  and  he  would  not  take  my  case,  because  I  would  not 
have  it  amputated.  I  was  under  the  treatment  of  Doctor  Morse  for  four  and  one- 
half  months.  He  said  at  first  it  could  be  healed,  and  then  he  said  it  would  have 
to  be  amputated.  But  when  he  was  ready  I  was  not  ready,  and  I  said  I  would 
be  healed." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "Show  us  how  you  can  walk  now."  (Miss  Wilcox  ran 
lightly  across  the  front  of  the  large  stage,  and  the  audience  vigorously  applauded.) 

A  Easiness  Man's  Testimony  to  the  Healing  of  His  Family. 

*'  I  will  now  ask  a  gentleman  who  is  manager  of  a  leading  Insurance  Company, 
a  personal  friend,  standing  high  in  this  city  among  commercial  men,  and  who 
will  carry  the  weight  that  belongs  to  his  sterling  character  and  social  station.  I 
will  ask  our  brother,  Mr.  Hugh  Craig,  of  312  California  Street,  San  Francisco,  to 
step  forward  and  give  us  his  testimony. "  Mr.  Craig  rose  in  the  audience,  and 
spoke  as  follows: — 

"  Before  I  speak  about  healing  in  my  own  family,  I  will  say  that  Mr.  Dowie 
brought  tf»  me  from  New  Zealand  letters  from  my  father  and  mother.  My  father 
is  seventy  years  of  age,  and  my  mother  sixty-eight,  and  they  are  Christians  of 
many  years'  standing  in  the  city  of  Auckland.  The  letters  toid  me  of  the  good 
work  he  had  done  in  New  Zealand  and  Australia.  On  his  arrival  my  family  were 
away;  when  they  returned  he  was  carrying  on  his  Mission  in  Oakland.  On  the  first 
afternoon  that  we  were  able  to  attend,  Mrs.  Craig  was  so  unwell  from  an  aflfection 
of  the  spine,  and  from  which  she  had  suflFered  for  twenty-six  years,  she  could  only 
sit  for  half  an  hour,  and  then  I  had  to  take  her  home.  On  the  next  Sunday  after- 
noon, we  had  Mr.  Dowie  at  our  house.  On  the  previous  Tuesday  one  of  my  little 
girls,  when  climbing  a  tree,  slipped  and  caught  her  arm  in  a  crotch  of  the  tree  and 
hung  there  a  sufiicient  time  to  make  considerable  noise,  and  until  we  could  run  out 
to  her  assistance.  It  injured  her  shoulder,  audit  kept  getting  worse  from  this 
Tuesday  until  this  Sunday  afternoon.  After  the  usual  exercises  before  the  chil- 
dren go  to  bed  (we  had  been  reading  the  eighth  chapter  of  John),  Mr.  Dowie 
thought  it  was  a  little  hard  for  the  little  folks,  and  said  we  would  have  another 
little  lesson  for  them  especially.  He  read,  *  Sufi'er  little  children  to  come  unto 
me,  and  forbid  them  not,  for  of  such  is  the  kingdom  of  heaven,'  and  explained 
the  story,  saying  he  thought  these  little  children  were  sick,  and  had  been  brought 
to  Jesus  for  healing,  as  well  as  for  other  blessing.  Then  he  asked  Jessie  if  she 
thought  Jesus  could  heal  her  little  sister's  shoulder.  She  had  been  going  around 
with  her  left  arm  hanging  down,  and  not  able  to  go  out  with  the  other  children." 
.  "  *  Yes,' she  replied;  she  thought  He  was. 

"He  said  to  another  child,  *' '  What  do  you  think?'  " 


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•'  She  said  she  thought  Jesus  would  heal  her  shoulder. 

•'  Mr.  Dowie  then  prayed,  saying  about  half  a  dozen  words,  asking  the  Lord 
^esus  to  manifest  his  povver;  and  he  just  touched  her  with  his  finger,  and  told  her 
to  hold  out  her  hand.  She  held  her  hand  out ;  the  pain  was  gone  instantly,  and  from 
tliat  moment  she  was  perfectly  healed.  This  was  my  first  opportunity  for  seeing 
anything  of  Divine  Healing.  I  was  astounded.  Mrs.  Craig  and  I  talked  this 
tiling  over  after  we  went  to  bed,,  and  we  had  occasion  afterward  to  see  a  good  deal 
of  Mr.  Dowie.  Mr.  Dowie  prayed  for,  and  laid  hands  upon,  my  wife,  and  the 
spinal  trouble  that  Mrs.  Craig  had  for  twenty -six  years  at  once  departed,  and  is 
now  entirely  gone.  She  had  also  an  affection  of  the  vocal  cords,  for  which  she 
was  treated  by  Dr.  O'Toole.  She  suffered  so  much  that  sometimes  she  had  to  sit 
up  all  night;  she  lost  her  voice  entix'ely,  and  was  not  able  to  sing  for  something 
like  ten  years.  Now  she  sings  morning,  nooii,  and  night,  and  that  trouble  has 
gone.  It  was  removed  by  the  Lord  at  the  same  time  as  the  spinal  injury.  All 
this  occurred  nearly  three  months  ago.  The  healing  of  the  spine  and  vocal  cords 
has  remained,  and  Mrs.  Craig  is  here  and  able  to  speak  for  herself."  (Tremen- 
dous applause  all  through  the  building.) 

Mrs.  Craig  then  rose  in  her  seat  and  said  (being  in  the  audience  and  speaking 
low,  the  reporter  heard  only  a  few  words): — 

"I  am  very  thankful  indeed  for  what  the  Lord  has  done  for  me.  I  have 
suffered  a  great  deal  of  pain.  I  was  af!iicted  with  the  troubles  my  husband  has 
mentioned.  Now  they  are  entirely  gone,  and  I  am  very  well  and  comfortable. 
It  used  to  trouble  me  to  lie  on  my  left  side,  but  now  I  can  do  so  as  well  as  upon 
my  right."     (Another  hearty  applause.) 

A  Doctor's  Testimony  to  His  Healing. 

Now  I  will  have  a  medical  doctor  testify,  our  dear  Brother  C.  F.  Ldine,  of 
Tulare  City,  who  sought  the  Lord  for  healing. 

Dr.  Lane  said:  "Friends,  I  have  not  words  this  evening  to  express  the 
gratitude  I  have  to  my  heavenly  Father  for  what  I  enjoy  this  moment.  I  give 
Him  all  the  glory  for  what  he  has  done  for  me.  I  have  been  a  Christian  man  for 
a  great  many  years,  and  I  have  suffered  a  very  severe  affliction  of  my  head,  and 
general  breaking  down  of  my  constitution  for  the  last  three  or  four  years.  I 
have  been  so  afflicted  with  my  head  that  I  have  not  been  able  to  exercise  my 
brain.  If  I  entered  into  a  conversation  my  thoughts  would  go  away  so  that  at 
times  I  could  not  connect  the  subject.  I  had  been  praying  the  Lord  to  use  me 
in  the  ministry  as  well  as  in  the  practice  of  medicine.  But  I  have  hardly  been 
-able  to  practice  medicine  or  to  preach,  only  occasionally,  for  three  or  four  years. 

"I  say  it  to  my  shame  that  I  have  been  skeptical  in  regard  to  healing  by 
iaith,  as  it  is  called.  I  have  tried  Christian  science,  and  I  have  tried  all  the 
remedies  for  the  restoration  of  my  health.  I  came  here  to  the  city  last  winter, 
and  went  to  Dr.  McLane,  and  other  physicians,  to  help  me  in  this  matter.  All 
failed.  This  spring  I  thought  I  would  go  to  the  mountains.  I  laid  in  a  stock 
of  medicines  and  started  for  the  mountains  with  my  daughter.  I  grew  worse  all 
the  time.  We  came  back  to  Woodbridge  and  stopped  over  there  at  a  friend's 
house,  on  our  way  back  to  the  city.  My  daughter  was  taken  down  with  a  very 
severe  affliction,  and  we  thought  she  was  going  to  die,  and  I  scarcely  got  through 
myself.  I  stayed  there.  A  dear  brother  came  in  one  day,  and  he  told  me  about 
Brother  Dowie  at  Sacramento,  and  he  gave  me  a  pamphlet  which  he  got  from 
there,  to  read.  Well,  I  thought  to  myself,  I  have  heard  so  much  about  faith 
healing  and  Christian  science  that  I  don't  believe  there  is  much  in  it.  I  did  not 
seem  to  have  any  faith;  but  when  I  heard  Brother  Dowie  was  from  Australia, 
out  of  curiosity  I  thought  I  would  go  and  hear  him.  I  did  not  believe  any 
'good  could  come  out  of  Nazareth,'  because  I  left  Australia  to  educate  my 
family  in  America  on  account  of  the  wickedness  of  the  people.  So  I  went  to 
hear  him,  and  it  was  the  hearing  that  enabled  me  to  lay  hold  of  faith  in  Jesus 
Christ  for  the  healing  of  my  body.  I  have  heard  a  great  deal  about  divine 
healing,  heard  a  great  deal  of  teaching  about  divine  healing,  but  I  have  been 
taught,  *  Lord,  thy  will  be  done. "  So  I  went  along  suffering  and  suffering,  and 
saying,  'Lord,  if  it  is  thy  will,  heal  my  body.'  I  tell  you,  dear  Christians,  it 
<5ame  to  the  point  with  me  that  I  almost  rebelled  against  God,  I  suffered  so  much 


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burning  pain  in  my  head.     I  almost  came  to  the  point  that  God  had  caused  me 
to  suffer. 

Bnt  I  heard  Brother  Dowie,  and  I  have  not  words  to  express  the  joy  of  my 
soul.  I  heard  the  beautitul  teaching.  It  was  just  like  living  in  a  new  world. 
Brother  Dowie  showed  me  it  was  not  my  Father's  will  that  I  should  suffer;  that 
it  was  His  will  that  I  should  be  whole;  that  I  should  have  strength  and  health 
of  body.  And  just  from  the  teaching  and  listening  to  Brother  Dowie  I  saw  a 
new  light  in  the  Scriptures  that  I  never  saw  before.  And  I  went  home  and  told 
my  dear  daughter  and  wife  that  it  was  not  the  Lord's  will  that  we  should  suffer;  it  is 
the  work  of  the  devil.  Well,  I  just  commenced  right  then  and  quit  the  medicine,  and 
I  trusted  the  Lord,  and  to  some  extent  I  was  better,  but  I  did  not  get  right.  But 
I  realized  that  the  healing  process  was  going  on  in  my  system.  I  then  came  here 
and  listened  to  Brother  Dowie  in  these  meetings.  Last  Sabbath  evening  I  was  at 
Lodi,  and  I  had  to  sit  way  back  in  the  far  end  of  the  church  and  listen  to  the 
preacher,  and  I  could  not  bear  to  hear  the  sound  of  the  preacher's  voice,  much  as 
I  wished  it  otherwise.  But,  Brother  Dowie,  now  I  can  pray  and  sing,  and  my 
head  seems  as  light  and  beautiful  and  comfortable,  and  I  am  filled  with  joy  and 
peace;  I  never  felt  so  in  my  life.  Oh,  it  is  faith  in  our  Heavenly  Father,  it  is 
faith  in  the  efl&cacy  of  the  blood  of  Jesus  Christ  who  hath  atoned  for  our  sins  and 
sicknesses,  and  it  is  His  will  which  has  wrought  the  work.  I  believe  that  God's 
children  shall  be  well  and  have  healthy  bodies.  I  am  resting  in  Jesus  from  mo- 
ment to  moment;  I  am  getting  better  acquainted  with  Jesus  every  moment; 
when  I  lie  down  to-night  I  shall  realize  He  is  present  with  me.  I  say,  'Lord,  I. 
trust  in  thee  to  heal  me  perfectly.'  I  was  not  healed  immediately — not  perfectly 
when  Brother  Dowie  prayed  with  me  in  the  Palace  Hotel,  but  1  am  getting  bet- 
ter all  the  time;  I  am  better  this  evening  than  I  was  yesterday.  I  have  confi- 
dence in  my  Heavenly  Father  that  I  am  going  to  have  perfect  health,  and  a 
sounder  body  than  I  have  ever  had,  because  I  am  going  to  trust  and  glorify  him 
every  moment.     The  Lord  bless  you  all. " 

Mr.  Dowie  remarked,  "The  brother  looks  all  right;  he  does  not  look  as  he 
did  at  Sacramento.     Perhaps  Miss  Lane,  his  daughter,  would  like  to  testify." 

Testimony  of  a  Doctor's  Daughter, 

Miss  Lane  immediately  responded,  and  in  a  very  pleasant  manner  spoke  as 
follows: — 

**  It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  speak  a  word  for  Jesus  to-night,  One  month 
ago  I  never  thought  I  could  stand  before  a  congregation  again;  I  thought  I 
should  never  be  able  to  speak  again  in  this  world.  For  a  number  of  years  I  have 
been  an  invalid;  I  have  been  very  delicate.  For  the  last  three  years  I  have  suf- 
fered very  much  from  nervous  exhaustion,  which  means  that  the  whole  body  is 
sick  from  head  to  foot.  Of  late  I  have  suffered  very  much  from  heart  disease, 
and  at  times  it  has  seemed  as  if  death  was  very  near. 

"A  few  months  ago  we  started  for  Oakland  to  attend  a  camp-meeting,  and  to 
also  go  to  a  cooler  climate,  as  I  seemed  to  be  failing  very  rapidly.  We  came  as 
far  as  Woodbridge,  and  the  excitement  of  just  meeting  with  my  friends  was  too 
great  for  me,  and  I  was  taken  down  with  severe  heart  trouble,  and  it  seemed  as 
if  I  must  die;  it  seemed  as  if  I  could  not  live  until  morning;  indeed,  from  one 
moment  to  the  next  it  was  thought  I  could  not  live;  and  I  believe  that  it  was 
only  by  the  power  of  God  through*  the  prayers  of  my  dear  ones  [tJvey  ivouldnH  give 
me  up),  that  I  was  raised  from  that  bed  of  suffering  and  from  going  down  to  the 
grave  just  in  the  bloom  of  youth,  when  I  might  work  for  Jesus.  I  am  so  thank- 
ful that  the  Lord  has  raised  me  up. 

"  Papa  has  told  you  that  he  went  to  Sacramento  to  hear  Bro.  Dowie  and  to 
learn  something  more  particularly  of  the  Divine  Healing.  They  prayed  for  me 
there  and  I  felt  very  much  better,  very  much  indeed.  I  laid  aside  medicines,  and 
I  just  told  the  Lord  if  he  did  not  heal  me  I  would  die;  I  did  not  want  any  more 
medicine. 

' '  I  might  say  that  Brother  Dowie  has  been  charged  with  being  a  magnetic 
healer,  and  heals  by  the  laying  on  of  hands  and  magnetism.  I  wish  to  say  that 
my  case  is  a  direct  disproof  of  that  false  charge.  In  this  city  last  winter  I  took 
treatment  of  one  or  two  magnetic  physicians,  I  think  as  good  as  ever  have  been 


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on  this  coast,  and  I  am  very  thankful  to  them;  the  last  one  I  had  worked  for  me 
very  hard  indeed,  and  he  spent  much  time  over  me,  and  much  thought;  he  did  all 
he  could  to  raise  me  up.  I  shall  never  forget  that  physician,  and  never  cease  to 
pray  for  him.  There  was  another  physician,  of  the  Eclectic  school,  who  tried  with 
all  his  power  to  help  me,  but  all  failed.  And  I  just  asked  the  Lord  to  give  me 
strength  to  come  up  to  these  meetings.  So  Jesus  gave  me  strength  to  come  and 
receive  the  teaching,  and  last  Sunday  I  made  up  my  mind  that  it  was  the  will  of 
Ood  to  heal  me.  Brother  Dowie  prayed  with  me  on  Monday,  and  I  at  once  re- 
<!eived  great  blessing.  I  don't  feel  as  well  as  Bro.  Dowie,  perhaps^  not  so  strong, 
but  I  am  improving  every  hour.  It  is  wonderful  to  feel  the  change  wrought 
within  me.  It  is  wonderful  to  me  to  know  what  good  has  been  done,  what  God 
has  wrought  for  me;  for  He  has  raised  me  up  from  the  very  gates  of  death,  and 
placed  his  life  within  me.     God  be  praised!" 

Mr.  Dowie  remarked:  "That  is  a  very  good  case.  Of  course  she  does  not  feel 
as  strong  as  I  do,  for  I  have  been  looking  to  Jesus  as  my  Healer  for  twenty-six 
years. " 

Healing  of  Twenty-five  Years'  Diseased  Lungs. 

I  have  a  little  testimony  here,  so  beautifully  written  that  I  would  like  to 
read  it : — 

**  312  Eddy  Street,  San  Francisco,  ) 
October  28,  1888.       j" 

'*B,EV.  JoHS"  Alex.  Dowie — Dear  Sir:  I  wish  to  express  my  gratitude  to  you 
and  Mrs.  Dowie  for  the  benefit  derived  through  your  instrumentality,  when  you 
visited  my  sick  chamber  on  the  fourteenth  of  September  last,  and  laid  hands  on 
me,  praying  for  Divine  Healing.  I  had  been  a  great  sufferer  for  over  twenty-five 
years  from  a  complication  of  troubles,  chief  of  which  was  an  affection  of  the 
lungs,  and  eminent  physicians  have  considered  my  case  hopeless.  Although  they 
had  greatly  improved  during  the  past  year,  they  had  never  been  free  from  sore- 
ness and  pain.  Immediately  after  the  laying  on  of  hands  the  pain  and  soreness 
entirely  disappeared,  and  has  not  returned.     I  believe  them  to  be  perfectly  well." 

Our  dear  sister  tells  us  she  has  received  further  blessing.  It  is  signed  "Mrs. 
S.  A.  Kelley, "  and  she  is  a  sister  of  the  reporter,  who  is  reporting  this  meeting 
so  perfectly. 

Healing  of  Twelve  Years'  Stomach  Disease. 

Now  I  will  have  a  commercial  man  of  this  city  testify,  whom  many  of  you 
may  know  better  than  I  do.  He  will  tell  you  what  the  Lord  did  for  him.  I  was 
Asked  by  him  to  pray  with  him,  and  I  was  not  used  as  I  would  like;  but  I  believe 
through  the  teaching  he  found  a  point  that  had  to  be  considered  and  put  right, 
which  was  done,  and  he  was  healed.     I  believe  he  is  an  elder  in  the  church. 

Mr.  G.  N.  Wood,  engraver,  of  Sutter  Street,  San  Francisco,  then  came  for- 
ward and  said:  "Bro,  Dowie  is  mistaken  about  my  being  an  elder.  I  hold  sev- 
eral offices  in  the  Hamilton  Square  Baptist  Church,  but  I  am  not  an  elder." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "You  will  have  to  be  made  oue  then." 

Mr.  Wood  continued:  "I  would  like  to  say  a  few  words.  I  believed  in  this 
Divine  Healing  for  a  long  time.  Ten  years  ago  I  had  a  trouble  in  my  head  which 
I  never  told  Brother  Dowie  of;  a  disease  of  the  brain;  and  a  sister  in  Oakland 
(some  of  the  people  in  Oakland  knew  her,  not  living  there  now);  I  simply  asked 
her  to  pray  for  me,  for  the  relief  of  my  head,  and  she  said  she  would.  I  was 
unable  to  write  any  business  letters,  or  scarcely  a  friendly  letter;  I  could  not  cal- 
culate or  do  any  figuring  which  was  at  all  close.  It  was  in  the  afternoon  I  asked 
her  to  pray  for  me,  and  the  next  morning  I  got  up  and  my  head  was  perfectly 
clear,  and  has  been  so  ever  since. 

•  'I  was  not  aware  that  Brother  Dowie  was  in  the  city  until  the  meetings  in 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Hall  four  months  ago  had  been  going  on  for  some  time.  I  went 
there  and  heard  several  discourses.  From  there  I  went  over  to  Oakland  and 
heard  other  discourses. 

'  'I  had  a  trouble  with  the  stomach  which  lasted  me  about  twelve  years,  and 
I  had  suffered  intense  pain.  Dr.  McNutt  pronounced  it  inflammation  of  the 
stomach.     I  think  it  was  something  worse  than  that.     I  came  near  dying  last 


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•winter.  At  the  time  I  went  over  to  Oakland  I  was  sneering  considerably,  and- 
Brother  Dowie  laid  his  hands  upon  me  at  the  hotel.  I  did  not  receive  immediate 
relief,  but  I  did  feel  the  presence  of  Christ,  and  I  felt  at  that  time  I  was  going  to 
be  healed,  and  from  that  time  on  I  realized  that  I  was  going  to  be  healed,  but  I 
did  not  get  the  healing  right  away.  At  the  time  he  laid  hands  on  me  I  promised 
to  give  up  all  medicine;  I  felt  I  ought  to  do  it.  But  I  got  discouraged,  and  my 
dear  wife  (who  is  here  this  evening)  wanted  me  to  take  a  remedy  which  always  gave 
me  temporary  relief;  and  I  consented.  This  I  have  not  told  Brother  Dowie,  as  I 
have  not  seen  him  since  the  Oakland  meetings  until  last  week,  when  I  met  him 
here  in  the  audience,  and  only  had  a  word  or  two.  The  medicine  I  took  did  not 
have  the  usual  effect:  it  acted  right  the  contrary  to  what  it  usually  did.  I  then 
saw  at  once  that  I  did  wrong;  I  had  gone  back  on  the  Saviour.  I  made  up  my 
mind  then  and  there  never  to  use  any  more  medicine,  and  from  that  day  to  this 
I  have  not  used  a  particle,  and  I  have  trusted  to  Jesus  for  healing.  I  had  been 
praying  right  along  for  several  days  that  I  might  be  healed,  for  I  felt  too  sick  to 
work  for  the  Lord.  In  earlier  times  here  I  have  been  a  worker  in  several  of  the 
churches  which  I  have  been  a  member  of.  I  kept  thinking  that  the  Lord  Would 
heal  me,  and  I  would  go  to  work  for  him.  But  I  did  not  get  well.  Then  I  said 
I  will  go  to  work  just  as  I  am,  and  trust  Jesus  for  strength,  and  almost  immedi- 
ately I  began  to  improve,  and  in  a  few  days  I  felt  as  well  as  I  did  twenty-five 
years  ago,  and  now  I  am  enjoying  the  best  of  health,  and  I  am  as  well  as  1  ever 
was.  I  am  enjoying  very  good  health;  so  that  I  am  able  to  attend  to  my  busi- 
ness, and  I  feel  strong  physically.  I  have  not  had  any  return  of  this  intense 
pain  in  my  stomach.  I  have  had  a  little  soreness  in  the  stomach  occasionally,  but 
I  asked  the  Saviour  to  take  it  away,  and  it  disappeared. 

**  I  believe  that  Christ  is  my  healer.  I  got  light  through  Brother  Dowie,  and 
considerable  help  also  from  a  brother  who  sits  there  in  the  audience.  I  am  trust- 
ing I  shall  enjoy  good  health  the  rest  of  my  days. 

"The  best  of  all  is,  that  I  feel  renewed  spiritually,  and  feel  more  like  working 
for  my  Saviour  than  I  have  for  many  years.     Praise  God." 

Otit  "  Little  Queen's  "  First  Testimony. 

Mr.  Dowie  said,  "  My  little  daughter  this  afternoon  stood  up  amongst  the 
healed  folks  who  desired  to  testify  here  this  evening.  When  we  were  coming  up 
to  this  meeting  I  said  to  her,  '*  Now,  my  little  queen,  when  I  asked  the  people 
who  were  going  to  testify  to  stand  up,  you  did  so.  Do  you  really  wish  to  testify  ?" 
She  said,  "  Yes,  papa."  I  have  noticed  from  her  expressive  looks  toward  me  dur- 
ing this  meeting,  that  she  expects  to  be  called  upon:  so  1  will  do  so.  She  is  only 
seven  years  and  five  months  old.  She  has  been  with  us  all  through  our  work, 
and  has  never  spoken  in  public  before.  Now,  little  queen,  would  you  like  to  tell 
what  Jesus  has  done  for  you  ?  " 

With  the  grace  of  maturer  years.  Miss  Esther  A.  Dowie,  the  "Little  Queen," 
said:  "  I  want  to  tell  you  that  Jesus  heals  me  always  ;  that  he  keeps  me  well  all 
the  time.  Once  1  burned  my  hand  on  a  red-hot  iron,  and  he  healed  it  right  away. 
He  keeps  me  well  all  the  time." 

Mr.  Dowie  continued:  *'  I  am  glad  my  little  daughter  is  a  Witness  for  Jesus. 
She  is  usually  in  bed  at  half -past  seven  o'clock,  but  when  a  Praise  and  Testimony 
Meeting  is  on,  she  is  permitted  to  come,  and  it  is  a  treat  she  always  looks  forward 
to  with  very  great  interest. ' ' 

Healing  of  an  Eight  Years'  Decrepit  African  Sister. 

'*  Now,  I  am  going  to  have  an  African  sister  testify.  Her  name  is  Mrs.  Will- 
iams, and  she  lives  at  459  Sixth  Street,  Oakland.  She  was  gloriously  healed  in 
the  Oakland  Mission.     Come,  Auntie,  tell  us  all  about  it." 

Mrs.  Williams  came  forward  with  a  nimble  step,  and  spoke  with  great  vivac- 
ity as  follows: — 

"  My  brothers  and  sisters,  stand  up  for  Jesus.  Hallelujah  to  his  holy  name. 
[Amen,  from  Mr.  Dowie.]  I  stand  here  as  a  spectacle  and  a  monument  of  the 
goodness  of  Jesus  Christ.  I  give  God  the  praise  and  glory.  Brothers  and  sisters, 
I  have  suffered  for  the  last  eight  years  from  the  crown  of  my  head  to  the  soles  of 


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my  feet,  with  neuralagia  and  catarrh  in  the  head,  and  rheumatism  in  the  left  foot, 
and  I  could  not  wear  shoes.  Brother  Dowie  can  tell  you  that.  He  can  tell  you 
how  I  looked  when  I  first  came  into  his  meeting,  and  look  at  me  now.  I  aia  sixty 
years  old."  (The  lady  was  very  dark,  rather  slender  ia  form,  but  erect,  1  ripped 
gracefully  across  the  front  of  the  stage,  and  appeared  to  be  a  woman  of  nc  t  more 
than  thirty-five  years  of  age,  and  possessing  a  great  deal  of  strength  and  Vic'dity. 
The  audience  cheered.)     •*  I  am  sixty,"  she  continued,  "  and  I  feel  like  sixteen." 

**  You  will  please  excuse  my  speaking  so  loud,  but  I  wish  all  the  audience 
to  hear;  not  to  be  ashamed  for  Jesus.  Stand  up  for  Jesus;  be  steadfast  in  your 
faith;  be  strong  to  stand  up  for  him.  Speak  for  him  like  a  man  of  war.  Halle- 
lujah to  His  holy  name!  I  am  healed  through  this  faith  I  have  in  Jesus  Christ, 
in  the  blood  of  Jesus.  You  don't  know  how  happy  I  feel.  I  hav'nt  tongue 
enough  to  express  his  goodness.  For  eight  years  I  could  hardly  earn  my 
living.  I  went  t6  Brother  Dowie's  meeting  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church, 
Oakland,  and  he  prayed  for  and  laid  his  hands  upon  me.  I  attended  every 
meeting  there,  and  from  the  time  of  his  last  meeting  there,  I  have  been  out  of 
bed  at  6  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  going  to  my  work;  and  to-morrow  morning, 
by  the  help  of  God,  I  expect  to  go  to  my  work  again. 

**  When  Jesus  heals  you,  don't  be  ashamed  to  stand  up  and  confess  him 
before  men;  for,  recollect,  if  you  are,  he  will  be  ashamed  to  confess  you  before 
his  Father  and  the  holy  angels  in  Heaven.  Stand  up  for  Jesus.  He  is  *  a  man 
of  war,'  and  never  lost  a  battle.  He  has  won  every  battle,  and  he  will  stamp 
Satan  under  his  feet. " 

Mr.  Dowie  shouted,  "Hallelujah!"  and  the  people  clapped  their  hands. 
Mr.  Dowie  remarked,  as  the  good  woman  resumed  her  seat:  "I  think  I  shall 
have  to  go  down  South;  I  like  the  Africans.  God  bless  the  African  race. " 
(Amens  from  the  audience.) 

Restoration  of  Sight  in  One  Eye  After  Fourteen  Years' 
Nearly  Total  Blindness. 

I  am  going  to  have  a  dear  girl,  who  had  almost  lost  the  power  to  see  with 
the  left  eye  until  the  other  day,  testify.  Now  the  eye  is  perfectly  restored. 
Her  testimony  is  here  in  writing,  and  she  will  also  speak  herself.  Her  name  is 
Annie  Burkman,  and  she  lives  at  1320  Filbert  Street,  Oakland.  She  is  a  Swede 
by  birth.     She  writes  as  follows: — 

"On  last  Thursday  I  was  healed  of  sickness  in  my  eyes  since  I  was  one  and 
a  half  years  old.  Mr.  Dowie  prayed  and  laid  hands  on  me,  and  I  was  instantly 
healed." 

Mr.  Dowie  said  that  with  the  affected  eye  she  could  formerly  only  distin- 
guish light  from  darkness.  The  young  woman  then  came  forward  at  Mr.  Dowie's 
request,  and  spoke  in  a  clear  voice  as  follows: —  . 

"Since  I  have  been  seeing,  I  praise  God  all  the  time.  I  came  from  Austin, 
Texas,  a  few  months  ago.  Down  there  two  or  three  doctors  think  they  could 
cure  my  eyes,  but  they  could  not.  Brother  Dowie  put  his  hands  on  my  head 
and  prayed,  and  now  I  can  see  clear  everything,  everything.  I  know  before 
when  I  get  up  in  the  morning  my  eyes  were  sore  and  shut,  and  I  have  to  wet 
my  fingers  and  help  take  them  up,  and  now  both  eyes  are  quite  clear.  I  give 
glory  to  God  forevermore.  I  bless  Brother  Dowie  that  he  come  to  this  country 
to  heal  my  sight.  Brother  Dowie  pray  for  me,  and  I  pray  for  myself.  I  was 
converted  to  God  two  years  ago,  and  then  I  pray  Him  to  heal  my  eyes;  but  I 
don't  think  I  had  faith  enough.  I  could  not  receive  it,  until  now  I  have  it,  and 
my  eye  is  just  as  good  as  any  one  of  yours." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "This  is  the  first  time  I  have  seen  her  since  the  healing." 
He  then  asked  her  to  put  her  handkerchief  in  the  eye  that  had  not  been  blind, 
and  held  his  watch  some  distance  away,  and  asked  her  what  it  was.  She  said, 
"A  watch."  He  then  held  it  a  little  nearer,  but  still  a  foot  or  two  away,  and 
asked  her  to  tell  the  time.  "Five  minutes  to  ten,"  she  promptly  replied.  Mr. 
Dowie,  turning  to  the  congregation,  said:  "I  did  not  mean  you  to  know  the 
time;  you  had  better  stay  on.  He  then  questioned,  "You  say  you  could  only 
distinguish  daylight  from  darkness  with  that  eye,  until  I  laid  hands  upon  you  in 
Jesus' name ? "     "Yes,  sir."     "How  old  are  you ?"     "Sixteen." 


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"The  change  upon  her  eyes  is  marvelous,  and  the  disease  in  both  eyes  is  en- 
tirely gone.  Will  those  who  know  this  girl,  and  who  know  that  what  she  says  is 
true,  please  to  stand  up?"  Mr.  Dowie  counted  seven.  He  said  she  was  a 
member  of  the  Swedish  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  Oakland,  under  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Coriander's  pastorate,  a  brother  minister  who  was  in  sympathy  most  thor- 
oughly with  Divine  Healing. 

Healing  of  Congestion  of  the  Brain  and  Fonr  Years' 
Nervous  Exhaustion. 

Now  Brother  Edwards  will  testify.  He  is  a  commercial  man  in  your  city — 
Mr.  C.  F.  Edwards,  of  1010  Washington  Street,  and  No.  6  California  Market. 

Mr.  Edwards  said:  "There  are  a  great  many  here  who  know  me,  and  know  I 
have  been  sick  for  the  last  four  years.  I  have  been  under  the  doctor's  care.  My 
sickness  was  congestion  of  the  brain,  from  which  a  great  many  thought  I  never 
would  recover;  I  thought  so  myself.  I  have  been  going  down  gradually  all  the 
time,  although  I  had  the  best  physicians  in  the  city;  money  was  no  object.  I 
took  the  best  care  of  myself  that  was  possible.  About  four  months  ago  I  left  the 
city;  I  thought  I  could  not  get  well  here;  and  that  I  would  go  to  Oakland.  I 
went  over  and  staid  with  my  brother,  feeling  very  much  discouraged  and 
disheartened. 

"But  I  heard  of  this  Divine-healing  Mission,  and  I  thought,  surely  if  the 
Lord  is  doing  so  much  for  others,  he  is  willing  to  do  something  for  me.  And  so 
1  went  into  the  Mission  and  heard  this  teaching,  and  the  first  two  or  three  times 
I  attended  I  was  not  very  much  impressed  with  the  doctrine;  but  as  I  went  it 
seemed  as  though  1  began  to  get  new  light.  All  of  us  who  are  sick  are  apt  to 
think  it  was  the  Lord's  hand  that  was  upon  us,  and  that  is  what  I  thought;  and 
I  was  trying  to  be  submissive,  and  trying  to  bear  my  affliction  as  a  Christian. 
But  when  Brother  Dowie  taught  me  diflFerent;  that  it  was  not  the  Lord's  will 
that  I  should  be  sick — well,  I  considered  the  matter,  and  I  thought  perhaps  it  is 
so,  and,  if  so,  then  why  should  not  he  make  me  well  ?  At  last  I  saw  it  was  God's 
will  to  heal  me,  and  I  just  took  my  case  to  the  Lord;  I  did  not  go  to  see  Mr. 
Dowie  or  his  wife;  I  said  nothing  to  anyone;  I  just  said,  'Here,  Lord,  I  want  to 
be  healed. '  And.  as  I  went  home  from  the  meeting  that  night,  the  Lord  gave  me 
evidence  right  there  that  I  was  going  to  get  well. 

"I  had  been  out  of  business  for  four  months;  the  Lord  seemed  to  tell  me  to 
go  back  to  the  city.  I  came  back  and  went  into  business,  and  I  have  been  in 
business  ever  since,  and  have  not  lost  a  day.  It  has  been  about  three  months 
since  I  went  into  business,  and  I  am  getting  stronger  and  better  every  day;  and 
I  am  trusting  him  for  healing.  I  gave  up  medicine  entirely,  and  have  taken  none 
for  about  four  months.  I  am  stronger  to-day  than  I  ever  was.  I  tell  this  to  the 
honor  of  God. " 

Mr.  Dowie  exclaimed  fervently,  "Thank  God,"  and  proceeded  to  say,  after 
Mr.  Edwards  resumed  his  seat : — 

'  'Now,  that  is  the  case  of  an  intelligent  Christian  brother,  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  who  simply  sought  the  Lord  directly,  and  without 
any  human  laying  on  of  hands,  and  he  is  now  strong  and  attending  to  business. 
Where  is  the  magnetism  in  that?  I  did  not  know  of  our  brother  or  his  healing 
until  the  other  day,  when  he  made  himself  known  to  me,  and  told  me  what  he  has 
told  you." 

"Now  we  will  have  some  brief,  direct  testimonies.  Brother  Rudens,  perhaps 
you  and  your  wife  will  testify."  (The  gentleman  mentioned  and  his  wife  stood 
up,  and  he  gave  his  testimony,  followed  by  her. ) 

Restoration    of  Hearing   in  One  Ear   After  Eight   Years' 

Deafness. 

Mr.  A.  F.  Rudens,  of  11  Telegraph  Place,  said:  "Dear  brothers  and  sisters,  I 
am  glad  I  have  an  opportunity  to  testify  to  the  glory  of  my  blessed  Saviour.  For 
about  one  and  a  half  years  1  have  known  that'  Jesus  is  our  healer.  I  had  a 
difiiculty  in  my  head  for  about  eight  years.  For  about  three  years  I  tried  several 
doct'-rs,  and  used  a  good  deal  of  medicine,  but  it  was  all  ia  vaia.     For  about  five 


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years  I  have  not  used  any  doctors  or  medicine.  I  thought  I  would  have  to  be 
deaf  in  my  right  ear  for  the  rest  of  my  life  until  about  a  year  and  a  half  ago,  when 
I  prayed  the  Lord  to  open  this  ear;  but  somehow  my  faith  was  not  able  to  claim 
the  healing. 

"In  the  Mission  at  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Hall,  that  Brother  Dowie  held,  four  months 
ago,  I  heard  his  teaching  and  I  was  thoroughly  enlightened  to  receive  it.  My 
wife  had  her  right  arm  affected  by  rheumatism,  and  I  took  her  to  Brother  Dowie's 
rooms  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  and  asked  his  prayers  lor  healing.  After  Brother 
Dowie  had  prayed  for  her  he  asked  me  how  my  health  was.  I  said  it  was  all 
right,  only  my  right  ear  was  deaf.  He  said  he  would  ask  the  Lord  to  open  it  for 
me.  He  prayed  for  me  and  laid  his  hand  upon  my  head,  and  after  praying  for  me 
he  went  to  a  distant  part  of  the  room  and  told  me  to  close  up  my  left  ear.  He 
then  spoke  to  me.  At  first  I  could  not  hear  a  sound,  but  the  second  time  he 
spoke  I  could  hear  his  words  plainly.  1  could  feel  something  move  in  my  ear, 
something  give  way  in  my  head,  and  I  could  hear  his  words  very  plainly.  He 
said  'God  is  good.'  He  spoke  again,  and  his  wife  spoke  also,  and  I  could  hear 
every  word  very  plainly,  and  have  continued  to  do  so  from  that  time.  Glory  be 
to  God!"     (Great  applause). 

Healing  of  a  Stiff  Rheumatic  Arm. 

Mrs.  Rudens  said:  "I  wish  to  praise  the  Lord  for  what  He  has  done  for  me. 
Last  July  I  got  rheumatism  and  could  not  straighten  my  arm,  and  everybody 
saw  it.  [Illustrated  by  holding  her  right  arm  out,  and  doubling  the  fore-arm  and 
hand  in  so  as  to  make  a  right-augle  at  the  elbow.]  I  did  not  know  how  my  arm 
would  get  straight;  I  did  not  go  to  any  doctor;  but  suflFered  a  great  deal.  I  went 
to  Mr.  Dowie's  Mission,  and  believed,  after  hearing  his  teaching,  that  I  would  be 
healed.  I  went  to  his  rooms  and  he  prayed  for  me,  and  my  arm  came  out  all 
straight,  and  has  been  straight  ever  siace;  no  pain  in  my  arms  since.  I  praise  God 
for  all  he  has  done  for  me."    (Applause.) 

Restoration  After  Twelve  Years'  Deafness. 

Mr.  Dowie  then  called  on  S.  Edmonds,  of  11  Telegraph  Place,  city. 

He  said:  "I  can  testify  to  the  honor  of  God  and  of  Jesus  Christ.  For  twelve 
years  I  could  not  hear  in  my  left  ear.  I  sat  in  the  audience  in  Mr.  Dowie's  first 
Mission,  and  I  thought  if  that  is  Christianity  I  want  to  have  it.  I  prayed  for 
the  restoration  of  my  hearing  in  the  meeting.  I  went  home  and  when  my  wife 
spoke  to  me  I  found  I  could  hear  with  my  left  ear.     Then  I  gave  God  the  glory. " 

Healing  of  Many  Infirmities. 

Mr.  Dowie  announced  Mr.  Wm.  Donald,  220  Third  Street,  city,  as  one  who 
had  been  healed  of  many  troubles.     Mr.  Donald  said: 

"  There  are  a  great  many  here  who  have  heard  me  testify  of  my  healing  a 
good  many  times.  It  was  not  through  Mr.  Dowie's  teaching  and  preaching  nor 
that  of  anybody  else  that  I  was  healed.  I  was  in  my  bed,  not  able  to  do  my 
work,  not  able  to  move  around,  aad  one  day  I  asked  the  Lord  to  give  me  strength 
to  do  my  work,  and  before  fifteen  minutes  He  revealed  Himself  to  me  as  my 
Healer,  if  I  would  trust  in  Him.  I  said,  *Yes,'  I  would.  Previously  I  was  very 
skeptical  about  Divine  Healing;  I  did  not  believe  in  it.  I  did  not  get  perfect 
healing  right  oflF,  but  about  six  months  after  I  was  perfectly  well,  and  I  have 
been  well  ever  since.     The  Lord  is  my  Healer,  and  I  praise  Him  for  it  all. 

"  I  am  glad  Mr.  Dowie  is  here;  we  have  often  wished  in  our  meetings  we 
oould  see  this  great  work  done.  I  believe  the  Lord  has  heard  our  prayer  and 
sent  him  in  our  midst,  and  he  has  taught  us  how  w^e  may  be  healed,  and  how  we 
may  be  used  to  those  round  about  us.  I  praise  the  Lord  for  what  He  has  done  in 
my  case,  and  I  am  well  to-night. " 

Healing  of  Life-Long  Headache. 

Mrs.  Edward  Leach,  1333  Union  Street,  city,  testified:  **  I  have  suflFered  from 
severe  headache  all  my  life  long;  scarcely  a  week  passed  without  having  to  stay 


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in  bed.  I  have  trusted  the  Lord  for  healing,  and  since  then  I  have  been  troubled 
no  more.  It  was  in  the  first  Mission.  Mr.  Dowie  knew  nothing  of  it  until  his 
return  from  the  Oakland  Mission.  My  husband  is  here  in  the  audience  and  can 
say  the  same." 

Her  husband  immediately  arose  and  said:  **I  thank  God  that  I  can  corrob- 
orate my  wife's  statement.  While  it  seems  marvelous,  it  is  not  so;  for  '  Jesus 
Christ  is  the  same  yesterday,  to-day,  and  forever. '     I  thank  God  for  what  I  have 

and  realized  of  His  healing  powers  in  my  wife. " 


Healing  of  an  Ulcerated  Leg. 

Mr.  Dowie  then  said:  "Mrs.  Barnes,  513  Hayes  Street,  city,  a  member  of 
Simpson  Memorial  Church,  was  healed  during  our  first  Mission  instantly,  and  I 
will  ask  her  to  again  testify  to-night  because  wicked  rumors  are  abroad,  even  in 
one  of  the  city  M.  E.  Churches,  that  she  is  as  bad  as  ever.  Her  husband  had 
occasion  to  rise  the  other  night  and  contradict  these  statements.  I  will  ask  Mrs. 
Barnes  to  tell  what  the  Lord  did  for  her,  again.  It  was  a  remarkable  healing." 
Mrs.  Barnes  came  forward  and  said: — 

"  Dear  Friends:  For  the  first  time  in  my  life  I  heard  of  Mr.  Dowie  on  the  fir., 
of  last  July;  I  had  never  had  faith  in  Divine  Healing.  I  heard  that  little  Geor- 
gie  Richville  was  going  on  the  2d  of  July  to  have  his  eyes  opened.  Previous  to 
that  I  had  suiBTered  from  bad  limbs,  with  ulcers,  and  had  tried  several  doctors  In 
the  East  and  in  this  city;  but  they  had  made  me  worse,  and  I  gave  up  doctoring. 
Well,  I  went  to  the  meeting  because  I  was  interested  in  this  little  boy  who  was 
then  quite  blind.  I  had  never  seen  him,  but  had  heard  of  him.  When  prayers 
were  offered  for  him,  I  did  not  pray  specially  for  myself,  but  I  prayed  that  Jesus 
would  show  his  power  on  the  dear  little  boy,  and  give  him  his  sight.  To  my 
astonishment  I  found  it  was  twenty  minutes  to  six  when  our  meeting  was  over, 
and  1  had  to  be  home  by  six  o'clock;  so  I  hurried  out  and  got  into  the  car  on 
Market  Street.  I  went  to  Grant  Avenue  and  then  to  Market  Street.  Before  I 
went  to  the  meeting  my  leg  was  in  great  pain,  and  above  the  calf  of  my  leg  it  was 
raw,  and  a  big  wound  nearly  as  large  as  a  dollar  in  one  place.  When  I  went  out 
it  was  so  late,  and  I  was  in  such  a  hurry,  that,  before  I  knew  it,  I  was  running 
down  Grant  Avenue  as  hard  as  I  could  to  try  and  catch  the  car.  When  I  got  to 
Market  Street  I  remembered  my  leg,  and  thought,  *  Where  is  the  pain  in  my  leg 
gone  ? '  I  was  so  astonished  I  did  not  know  what  to  do.  Presently  the  car  came 
along,  and  when  I  got  home  my  supper  was  late,  and  I  had  to  rush  around.  On 
the  morning  of  the  4th  of  July  I  prepared  to  go  out,  and  I  walked  about  the 
whole  day  long.  On  the  5th  of  July  I  went  around  to  tell  Mr.  Dowie  what  a 
healing  I  had  received ;  a  healing  which  I  retain  to  this  moment. 

'*  I  want  distinctly  to  say  Mr.  Dowie  never  spoke  to  me,  never  knew  I  was 
in  the  hall,  never  knew  a  word  about  it  until  I  gave  him  iny  testimony;  and  it 
is  a  wicked,  false  storj  to  say  that  my  leg  is  now  as  bad  as  it  was.  My  leg  is 
better  than  it  has  been  for  twenty -five  years.  My  husband  is  in  the  hall  and  can 
confirm  what  I  say. " 

Mr.  Barnes  arose  in  the  audience  and  said:  "  I  can  simply  say  that  my  wife 
is  perfectly  correct  in  every  detail.  I  will  further  state  that  while  we  were  in 
East  Boston,  Mass.,  she  had  Doctor  Hand,  Doctor  Campbell,  and  Doctor  Mc- 
Michael ;  they  each  did  as  much  as  they  could,  but  all  amounted  to  nothing.  iShe 
went  to  the  Allopathic  Hospital  and  to  the  Homeopathic  Hospital,  and  she  got  no- 
relief  ;  the  leg  remained  very  bad  indeed.  Although  now  it  has  been  turned  back 
to  its  natural  size,  there  is  evidence  of  what  it  has  been.  Some  have  said, 
'You  did  not  say  who  these  doctors  were;'  so  I  have  given  their  names,  and  they 
are  some  of  the  best  physicians  in  East  Boston,  Mass.  She  remains  perfectly 
well." 

Mrs.  Barnes  added:  "  I  am  perfectly  willing  that  any  medical  gentleman, 
that  is,  a  real  medical  gentleman,  should  visit  me  at  my  house,  and  see  my  foot 
and  leg."' 

Mr.  Dowie  remarked:  **  I  hand  you  over  to  Doctor  Lane!  We  are  all  satis- 
fied, however,  that  the  Lord's  work  was  done,  and  that  the  Lord's  work  remains." 


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Healing  Through  Doctors  Cullis'  and  Simpson's  Agencies. 

Mrs.  Blanchard,  330  Sanchez  Street,  city,  said: — 

"  Five  years  ago  I  was  anointed  in  the  East  by  Doctor  CuUis  and  waa  restored 
from  sickness,  and  have  taken  Christ  as  my  healer  and  physician  from  that  day  to 
this.  Last  December  I  took  cold  in  my  neck  and  it  became  stiff.  I  did  not  take 
any  medicine.  When  Doctor  Simpson  was  here  he  anointed  it,  and  it  became 
limber.  I  went  to  see  my  pastor  and  showed  him  what  the  anointing  was,  and 
that  I  was  restored.  I  have  been  so  ever  since.  The  pastor  was  Mr.  Hall.  Ho 
came  in  to  see  me  in  my  sickness." 

Healing  of  Many  Years'  Internal  Disease. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  **  The  next  to  testify  is  Mrs.  Margaret  Johnson,  723  Eighth 
Street,  Oakland.  I  may  just  say  in  this  case,  that  our  dear  sister  cannot  be  ex- 
pected to  give  d. tails." 

Mrs.  Johnson,  a  Swedish  lady,  spoke  as  follows:  "  I  would  like  to  say  that 
Jesus  is  my  Saviour  and  he  is  my  Healer.  I  have  known  him  as  my  Saviour  for 
fifteen  years,  but  I  have  not  known  him  as  my  Healer  until  Mr.  Dowie's  Oakland 
Mission,  the  18th  of  last  July.  I  heard  the  teaching,  and  I  could  feel  and  see 
where  all  the  sickness  came  from.  I  thought  before  that  the  sickness  came  from 
God.  But  I  felt  I  could  not,  when  I  knew  better,  stand  it  any  longer,  and  I 
asked  the  Lord  to  help  me  get  relief  very  quick,  for  I  knew  I  could  not  stand  it 
long.  The  next  morning  I  was  more  sick  than  ever,  and  I  was  wondering  what  I 
should  do;  I  felt  I  would  not  be  able  to  sit  up  in  the  Mission,  and  I  did  not  know 
whether  to  take  medicine.  I  took  medicine  and  1  threw  it  up.  I  said,  *  That  is 
the  last  I  will  take.'  I  went  down  to  Mr.  Dowie's  meeting  in  the  afternoon,  but 
I  was  filled  with  pain  from  head  to  foot.  I  had  been  sick  for  six  years,  and  been 
taking  medicine  all  the  time.  I  have  seen  eleven  doctors;  the  last  one  was  Dr.  Mc- 
Lane  in  this  city,  and  he  told  me  I  could  not  be  cured  for  many  months. 

'*  That  afternoon  I  came  into  the  healing  room,  and  Mr.  Dowie  laid  his  hands 
upon  me,  and  I  felt  every  pain  leave  me;  I  moved  and  stepped,  and  I  did  not  feel 
anything,  the  pain  passed  away  so  quick.  But  after  that  I  did  not  feel  so 
strong  as  I  wanted  to  be,  and  I  doubted  and  wondered  if  I  was  really  healed. 
One  night  I  heard  a  voice  say,  *  Satan  hath  desired  to  have  you,  that  he  may  sift 
you  as  wheat;  but  I  have  prayed  for  thee,  that  thy  faith  fail  not.'  I  wondered 
what  was  going  to  happen;  if  I  was  going  to  be  sick  again,  and  I  wondered  if  I 
was  healsd  or  not.  1  moved  and  I  felt  I  was  all  right;  but  when  I  stood  up,  I 
felt  as  if  there  was  a  chain  around  me  just  above  my  knees,  and  my  feet  and  le^s 
felt  heavy.  I  said  that  is  the  work  of  the  devil;  I  aint  going  to  have  it.  But  I 
had  it  until  Saturday,  and  during  the  time  I  caught  cold  and  felt  verj'^  sick.  On 
Saturday  morning  I  was  wondering  if  I  was  a  Christian  or  not,  and  if  I  had  done 
anything  to  keep  the  blessing  away.  And  I  went  to  God  and  asked  him  to  for- 
give me  my  sins  and  heal  me  according  to  his  own  promise.  And  I  seemed  to 
hear,  'Peace  be  still;  I  have  heard  you.'  I  felt  as  if  somebody  was  opening  the 
chain  and  it  dropped  off.  I  stretched  out  my  hands  and  said,  '  Lord,  can  1  touch 
you  ? '  And  I  felt  something  overflow  me,  and  I  felt  so  happy  and  light.  I  felt 
that  I  was  healed;  I  felt  as  if  I  was  just  swimming  in  the  Kiver  of  Life.  I  was 
so  happy  I  could  not  sleep  at  all,  and  I  laid  there  all  the  night  rejoicing.  I  now 
feel  well  and  strong;  I  have  been  perfectly  well  for  two  months." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  This  was  a  serious  case  of  longstanding — internal  troubles. 
I  cannot  say  any  more  about  it.  but  any  lady  who  can  read  between  the  lines  can. 
understand.     Our  dear  sister's  body  was  just  made  anew." 

Healing  of  Many  Troubles. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "^ow  a  word  from  Mr.  J.  A.  Mansfield,  of  the  Silver  Star- 
House.  The  brother  is  unknown  to  me,  but  he  tells  me  the  Lord  has  heoisd  and 
blessed  him  elsewhere. " 

Mr.  Mansfield  said:  "I  praise  God  because  oi  his  blessings  to  my  soul. 
It  was  through  faith  in  Jesus  alone'  that  I  have  been  kept  in  health,  and  through 
the  sanctification  of  the  Holy  Spirit  I  have  several  times,  when  at  the  point  of 


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death,  been  bronght  back  again.  I  knew  at  the  time  it  was  through  the  power 
of  Jesus  that  death  was  overcome.  Whenever  pain  would  come  I  looked  to 
Jesus,  and  instantly  the  pain  would  go  away.  It  is  as  when  a  person  commits 
sin.  You  know  the  word  of  God  says,  *Sin  not,'  and  that  seems  to  be  the 
command  taught  to  me  in  reference  to  pain.  When  we  sin  we  cau  come  to 
Jesus  as  an  advocate,  and  the  sin  is  instantly  taken  away.  So  it  is  with  pain. 
I  look  to  Jesus  as  my  healer,  and  it  is  instantly  taken  away;  it  disappears.  I 
have  faith  in  .Jesus,  and  am  trusting  him  for  all  things. " 

Healing  of  Kidney  Disease. 

Mr.  Homer  Dray,  707^  Stevenson  Street,  city,  said:  "  In  March,  1884,  I 
had  been  suffering  a  long  time  with  an  aflfection  of  the  kidneys,  and  had  taken 
bottles  and  bottles  of  medicine;  all  for  naught.  One  night  in  my  sufferings  the 
thought  came  to  me  something  like  this:  *  Why  not  ask  Jesus  to  heal  you? '  and 
I  immediately  turned  my  eyes  towards  Jesus  in  prayer,  and  I  dropped  to  sleep 
praying.  In  the  morning  I  awoke  just  as  hearty  and  as  well  as  any  man  I  had 
m  my  camp.     I  give  all  the  praise  to  Jesus. " 

Healing  of  Heart  Disease. 

Mr.  Dowie  then  called  on  Mrs.  Bills,  326  Larkin  Street,  city,  saying  that 
she  had  been  cured  of  heart  disease  and  other  troubles.     Mrs.  Bills  said: — 

"I  can  say  to  the  glory  of  God  that  since  the  first  of  last  May  I  have  been 
enabled  to  take  Jesus  as  my  healer.  For  some  moaths  previous  to  this  I  suffered 
from  heart  difficulty  and  other  troubles.  Being  a  child  of  God,  I  was  trying  to 
take  Jesus  as  my  healer.  I  felt  my  faith  was  weak.  I  asked  some  of  the  people, 
some  of  the  faifhful  ones,  connected  with  an  organization  to  which  I  belonged, 
to  jjray  for  me,  and  Jesus  healed  me.  Since  that  time  I  have  been  perfectly  well, 
and  I  give  all  the  glory  to  Jesus.  To-night,  by  the  goodness  of  God,  I  am  well 
in  spirit,  soul,  and  body." 

Healing  of  Ten  Years'  Chronic  Neuralgia  and  Spinal  Injury. 

Mrs.  Pereau,  of  Bristol  Street,  West  Berkeley,  said:  "I  am  so  glad  that  I 
am  able  to  glorify  God  and  tell  of  his  healing  power.  I  was  a  great  sufferer  with 
neuralgia  for  ten  years,  which  became  chronic;  also  an  affection  of  the  spine,  not 
able  to  lay  on  my  back.  I  attended  the  meeting  in  Oakland,  and  listened  to  Dr. 
Dowie's  teaching.  I  took  Jesus  for  my  Healer,  and  I  have  not  suffered  any 
since.     The  Lord  be  praised. " 

Mr.  Dowie  exclaimed,  "Thank  God!  The  sister  has  come  a  long  way  to 
-witness  for  Christ." 

Healing  of  Many  Troubles. 

Mrs.  Mary  C.  Littell,  817  Nineteenth  Street,  San  Francisco,  said: — 
"  About  ten  years  ago  I  read  in  the  precious  word  of  God  that  Jesus  was  my 
Saviour  and  my  Healer,  and  I  have  lived  with  him  ever  since,  until  he  has  come 
to  be  a  complete  Saviour.  Since  taking  him  as  my  Healer,  I  have  never  had  a 
physician.  My  husband  can  testify  that  Jesus  keeps  me  and  saves  me.  I  do 
not  see  why  every  Christian  who  reads  God's  precious  word  does  not  see  that 
Jesus  is  the  Healer  as  well  as  Saviour.  I  praise  his  name  that  he  has  kept  me 
by  his  power.    Glory  be  to  God!  " 

Healing  of  Chronic  Neuralgia. 

Mr.  Littell  said:  *'  I  can  testify  to  the  power  of  God  to  heal.  I  had  suffered 
for  several  years  with  neuralgia  in  my  head.  Brother  Brown,  who  is  in  the  audi- 
ence, and  some  others  who  used  to  belong  to  a  Mission  that  I  and  my  wife  used 
to  attend,  know  this  to  be  true.  I,  like  many  others,  was  opposed  to  this  doc- 
trine of  Divine  Healing.  Through  their  teaching  I  was  led  to  call  upon  Jesus. 
One  morning  as  I  left  my  home  I  was  so  ill  that  I  said  to  my  wife,  *  I  may  be 
back  in  a  few  moments,  and  if  not,  I  may  be  dead. "  On  the  comer  of  Valencia 
and  Nineteenth  Streets  I  prayed,  and  my  faith  reached  to  the  very  throne  of 
God.  I  called  upon  Jesus  to  heal  me  then  and  there.  He  did,  and  I  have  never 
felt  the  pain  from  that  day  to  this.     I  give  God  the  glory. " 


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More  Than  Sixty  Witnesses.. 

Mr.  Dowic  said:  "  All  that  have  been  healed  in  any  of  our  meetings  through 
faith  in  Jesus,  just  stand." 

After  counting  them  he  announced  there  were  sixteen  in  the  meeting  and 
about  twenty-eight  on  the  platform,  and  at  least  twenty  had  gone  away,  as  the 
hour  was  very  late.  Mr.  Dowie  said:  '*Now,  I  may  say  I  have  a  number  of 
written  testimonies;  but  at  this  late  hour  of  the  night  [it  was  past  eleven  o'clock] 
I  will  not  detain  you  longer.  I  think  you  are  about  the  most  patient  people  I 
have  seen  for  a  long  time.  Now,  we  are  just  going  to  close  this  meeting;  but  we 
are  not  going  to  send  the  people  away  without  giving  them  an  opportunity  to  give 
their  hearts  to  Jesus,  and  we  will  have  an  after-meeting,  as  we  always  do." 

At  Least  a  Thousand  Believers  in  Jesus  as  a   Present 

Healer. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  Will  all  those  in  this  meeting  who  believe  that  Jesus 
Christ  is  the  Healer,  and  that  the  doctrine  which  we  have  been  teaching  is  the 
doctrine  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Chriat,  just  stand  to  their  feet."  (The  larger  portion 
of  the  great  audience  were  on  their  feet.) 

Mr.  Dowie  exclaimed,  "Thank  God!  May  the  Lord  grant  that  we  may  have  a 
mighty  Association  to  promote  this  work  in  this  city.  ["Amen,"  from  the  audi- 
ence.] My  wife  reminds  me  to  tell  you  that  these  meetings  are  continued  every 
day  through  the  next  fortnight,  save  Wednesday  next.  Will  you  bring  the  sick 
along?  " 

"  All  who  have  received  spiritual  blessings  in  this  Mission,  stand  to  your 
feet."    (Another  large  body  of  people  rose.) 

"Hallelujah!  hallelujah!  I  thank  God  for  it.  We  cannot  do  any  more  now 
than  sing  the  Doxology,  but  the  moment  this  meeting  closes  we  shall  have  our 
after- meeting." 

After  singing  the  Doxology,  Mr.  Dowie  pronounced  the  following 

Benediction: 

**  And  now,  beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil,  and  the  very  God 
of  peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  spirit,  and  soul, 
and  body  be  preserved  entire  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ.  Faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it.  The  grace  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  love  of  God,  and  the  fellowship  of  the  Holy  Ghost  be  with 
you  ever.     Amen." 

POSTSCRIPT. 
Twenty-Three  Years'  Deafness  Removed  During  the  Meeting. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  above  meeting,  an  after-meeting  was  held,  to  which 
several  hundreds  remained.  Immediately  the  meeting  was  called  to  order  a  young 
man  rose  and  requested  permission  to  speak.  He  said  he  had  been  entirely  deaf 
for  twenty  three  years  in  the  right  ear  until  that  evening,  and  that  during  the 
meeting  he  had  asked  in  prayer  for  the  restoration  of  his  hearing  and  had  received 
it.     He  spoke  somewhat  as  follows: — 

"  I  have  been  deaf  in  my  right  ear  for  twenty -three  years.  When  two  years 
old  I  had  a  terrible  sickness  and  could  not  hear  in  that  ear  since  then.  I  have 
been  in  this  country  four  years;  have  been  a  Christian  for  four  years;  I  have  be- 
lieved in  this  doctrine  of  Divine  healing  ever  since  I  have  been  a  Christian.  I  do 
know  the  reason  why  I  was  not  free  before :  it  was  because  I  did  not  give  up 
everything  to  Christ.  I  have  been  here  in  San  Francisco  for  four  months.  I 
give  up  everything  for  Christ.  I  was  smoking,  and  so  I  gave  that  up,  and  felt 
more  pure  from  it.  This  very  afternoon  and  this  evening  during  your  meeting  I 
asked  God  to  heal  me.  I  had  to  listen  before  very  much  indeed;  and  now  as  I 
was  sitting  here  I  hear  better  and  better,  and  then,  all  at  once,  I  hear  in  that  ear 
too." 


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Mr.  Dowie  then  asked  him  to  close  his  left  ear  and  to  repeat  after  him  the 
-words  he  would  then  say.     " God  is  good." 

He  answered,  "He  is." 

Mr.  Dowie  said,  "  But  will  you  please  repeat  my  words  after  me?  Put  your 
finger  in  your  other  ear.     Now,  'God  is  my  Healer.'" 

The  young  man  replied,  "  He  is  my  Healer,  too." 

Then  Mr.  Dowie  said,  "  You  will  please  say  the  very  same  words  which  I 
say." 

He  said,  "Yes." 

Mr.  Dowie  then  said:  "  Jesus  Christ,  the  same  yesterday,  to-day,  and  for- 
ever. "  The  young  man  exactly  repeated  these  words,  hearing  only  with  the  ear 
that  had  been  totally  deaf.  Mr.  Dowie  then  told  him  to  go  to  the  farthest  back 
seat  in  the  Opera  House,  over  one  hundred  feet  distant.  He  did  as  directed.  Mr. 
Dowie  again  told  him  to  put  his  finger  in  the  left  ear,  and  to  listen  to  what  he 
said  with  the  right  ear  only,  and  to  repeat  the  words,  "God  is  love,"  "  I  am 
the  Lord  that  healeth  thee,"  "  I  am  the  good  Shepherd;  the  good  Shepherd  giveth 
his  life  for  the  sheep;"  all  of  which,  with  other  expressions,  were  repeated  per- 
rfectly  back  from  his  position  at  the  end  of  the  building.  The  young  gentleman 
was  a  Norwegian,  about  twenty-five  years  of  age,  and  gave  his  name  as  Thorvald 
Ber,  655  Howard  Street,  San  Francisco. 

[The  following  paragraph  appears  iu  The  Pacific  Herald  Holiness  of  No- 
vember 8,  and  is  from  the  pen  of  an  eminent  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  who  is  at  present  laboring  in  and  around  San  Francisco,  as  an  Evangelist. 
His  home  is  at  Niagara  Falls,  and  he  has  been  much  used  of  God,  both  in  England 
:and  America.  We  may  add  to  his  kind  words  concerning  our  present  Mission 
the  fact  that  up  to  the  moment  of  writing  these  lines  (Thursday  evening,  Novem- 
ber 8,)  over  one  hundred  and  sixty  persons  have  openly  sought  the  Lord  for  sal- 
vation in  our  meetings;  and  that  over  five  hundred  persons  profess  to  have  been 
saved  in  our  five  months'  ministry  in  this  State.     To  God  be  all  the  glory!] 

Rev.  Mr.  Bowie's  Meeting. 

It  has  been  our  privilege  to  attend  a  good  many  of  the  meetings  conducted 
by  the  Rev.  John  A.  Dowie  in  the  Grand  Opera  House  in  this  city  during  the 
month  of  services  now  coming  to  a  close;  and  I  praise  God  for  the  wonderful 
power  and  blessing  of  God  which  has  been  experienced  in  the  meetings.  I  pro- 
fess to  be  able  to  distinguish  between  truth  and  error.  I  believe  no  man  can  de- 
ceive me  with  unsound  doctrine  or  hypocritical  pretensions  either.  And  I  do  say, 
to  the  glory  of  God.  that  I  have  never  heard  sounder  gospel  truth  taught  by  any 
man  than  by  Brother  Dowie.  His  teaching  on  faith  for  salvation  and  healing 
seemed  to  us  on  last  Sunday  to  excel  anything  I  had  ever  heard.  It  carried  me 
back  in  thought  to  the  wonderful  teaching  of  John  Wesley,  whose  utterances  on 
faith  seemed  to  be,  and  no  doubt  were,  inspirations  from  God.  Mr.  Dowie  does 
not  heal  the  wounds  of  the  daughters  of  Zion  slightly.  His  denunciations  of  sin 
of  all  kinds  are  convincing  and  powerful.  God  is  evidently  owning  his  labors  in 
the  conversion  of  hundreds  of  sinners,  and  many  clear  cases  of  divine  healing  are 
wrought  through  his  ministry.  The  blind  have  received  their  sight,  the  lame 
walk,  and  no  doubt  diseases  as  incurable  as  leprosy  are  cleansed  away. 

It  is  much  easier  to  persecute  and  misrepresent  such  a  man  than  to  imitate 
his  example,  but  it  is  dangerous  business.  "Touch  not  mine  anointed  and  do 
my  prophets  no  harm. "  To  have  carried  through  such  a  series  of  meetings  for  a 
whole  month  successfully  in  San  Francisco  amid  all  the  excitements  of  a  Presi- 
dential election,  has  been  a  wonderful  achievement  for  the  glory  of  God  and  the 
good  of  suffering  and  perishing  humanity.     To  God  be  all  the  glory. 

J.  E.  Irvine, 

END  OF  FIRST  EDITION. 

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Praise  and  Testimony  Meeting  Held  in  the  Lyceum,   San 
Francisco,  on  the  Evening  of  Lord's  Day,  November  1 1th. 

As  in  other  cases  this  report  is  the  work  of  Mr.  G.  H.  Hawes,  320  Sansome 
Street.  There  was  a  very  large  audience  present,  and  after  introductory  exer- 
<;ises  and  the  presentation  of  many  petitions  for  prayer,  and  announcements  con- 
nected with  the  organization  of  the  newly  formed  Divine  Healing  Association,  we 
stated  that  over  170  persons  had  professed  to  be  saved  in  the  Mission  within  the 
last  28  days.  The  first  person  whom  we  asked  to  testify  was  Mr.  M.  C.  Ryan,  of 
503  Commercial  St.,  San  Francisco. 

For  Twenty-five  Years  He  Had  Lived  without  Prayer, 

And  had  been  converted  in  the  Grand  Opera  House,  in  consequence  of  the  spiritual 
iriipressions  made  upon  him  at  our  testimony  meeting  of  October  28th.  His 
testimony  was  a  very  characteristic  one,  and  he  seemed  to  be  a  typical  American 
workingman.  In  giving  his  experience,  our  reporter  says,  '*  He  spoke  in  a  frank 
and  earnest  tone. "  He  told  the  assemblage  that  he  had  always  claimed  to  be  a 
moral  man,  never  a  drunkard,  and  never  looked  for  anything  in  the  shape  of 
Christianity.  He  felt  that  the  dictates  of  his  own  conscience  were  a  sufficient 
guide,  and  said:  "  As  long  as  I  went  through  the  world  and  did  not  cheat  my 
fellow-men,  and  was  contented  with  myself,  I  thought  I  was  quite  ready  to  lay 
down  at  any  time  and  meet  my  Maker.  I  have  told  this  to  a  great  many  Chris- 
tians when  they  talked  to  me  about  my  soul,  and  I  considered  myself  as  good  a 
man  as  any  Christian.  But  two  weeks  ago  to-night  I  was  standing  on  the  street 
and  I  heard  a  man  testify  for  Christ.  I  don't  know  who  he  was,  but  his  words 
made  an  impression  upon  me.  He  said,  *  If  you  don't  want  to  go  to  our  church, 
to  which  I  invite  you,  you  can  go  to  the  Salvation  Army,  or  you  can  go  and  hear 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Dowie;  he  will  do  you  good  and  it  won't  cost  you  anything.' 

••Well,  I  'piked'  out  for  the  Opera  House,  and  when  I  went  in  I  got  up 
pretty  close  to  the  stage.  I  see  the  faces  here  of  some  who  testified  that  night. 
Their  testimony  seemed  to  me  very  strange,  but  they  came  with  such  force  that  I 
was  under  conviction  right  there.  I  tell  you,  my  friends,  if  a  man  was  ever  close 
to  hardened  infidelity  on  this  earth,  it  was  me;  but  now  I  feel  and  know  that  I 
am  a  diflferent  man.  I  have  often  heard  Christians  say  that  they  felt  that  they 
had  been  freed  from  sin  and  all  desire  of  sinning,  and  that  the  Spirit  of  God  had 
got  into  them.  I  always  thought  that  was  bosh;  it  was  all  talk.  But,  friends,  I 
give  it  to  you  to-night  that  if  I  ever  spoke  the  truth  in  the  world,  it  is  a  reality 
in  my  case. 

**  And  another  strange  coincidence  happened  here  this  very  day.  When  I  was 
sitting  here  in  the  audience  I  found  myself  right  alongside  of  a  Judge  belonging 
to  Denver,  my  own  town.  I  don't  know  whether  he  is  here  or  not.  Is  Judge 
Jeflfries  here  ?  "  There  being  no  response,  Mr.  Ryan  continued:  ••He  is  not  here, 
I  guess,  else  he  would  say  so.  I  was  so  interested  in  what  Dr.  Dowie  was  saying 
that  I  did  not  notice  who  was  sitting  alongside  of  me;  but  something  occurred 
that  caused  me  to  look  around,  and  I  saw  the  Judge.  He  said,  *  Great  God,  Mr. 
Ryan,  what  are  you  doing  here  ?  ' 

•'  I  said,  •  Judge,  I  have  been  seeking  the  Lord,  and  I  have  found  Him.' 

••  He  said,  'Good  for  you.' 

'•  I  said,  'Ain't  it  better  to  be  found  here  than  in  the  saloon  ? ' 

'•  He  said,  'You  would  never  find  me  in  a  saloon.' 

' '  I  said,  '  You  know  me  long  enough  to  know  it  is  not  my  resting-place  either; 
it  is  a  place  that  has  no  pleasure  forme,  but  this  place  has.' 

'  •  The  judge  went  away  rejoicing.  He  says  he  is  going  to  tell  all  my  friends  in 
Denver  that  I  am  a  Christian,  and  I  tell  you,  friends,  that  I  reckon  they  will  be 
more  surprised  than  when  they  heard  Harrison  and  Morton  [the  newly  elected 
President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States]  were  elected. 

' '  But  I  want  to  tell  you  about  my  conversion.  On  the  night  of  the  last  testi- 
mony meeting  I  staid  until  the  after  meeting,  and  for  the  first  time  for  many 
years  I  knelt  down  and  prayed.  As  I  was  going  out  I  spoke  to  Mrs.  Dowie,  and 
she  sent  me   home  full  of  conviction.     She  told  me  the  passage  of  the  Bible  to 


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look  for,  told  me  to  pray  in  faith  to  God,  and  that  I  would  be  all  right.  I  went 
home,  and  I  will  say  before  my  Maker  that  that  night  was  the  first  time  in  my 
life  since  I  left  my  mother  that  I  had  ever  got  on  my  knees;  and  I  have  con- 
tinued it  night  and  morning  since.  I  feel  at  peace  with  God  through  faith  in 
Jesus  Christ;  I  know  that  he  is  my  Savior."  ("Praise  the  Lord,"  and  "Halle- 
lujah, "  from  many. ) 

**  For  twenty-four  years  I  have  lived  without  prayer,  and  now  I  am  praising 
and  praying  all  the  time."     ("  Praise  the  Lord,"  from  Mr.  Dowie. ) 

This  testimony  was  received  with  great  interest  by  the  audience.  Mr.  Ryan 
spoke  in  a  particularly  impressive  and  simple-hearted,  manly  way.  He  continues 
to  be  an  earnest  worker  in  connection  with  the  newly-formed  Association,  and  is 
doing  much  good,  as  also  are  many  of  the  other  converts  in  the  city. 

Healing  of  Cancer  in  Switzerland  without  Human  Touch. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  **Iwant  Mrs.  Dowie  to  read  a  very  beautiful  testimony 
which  has  reached  us,  of  divine  healing,  from  a  lady,  whose  case  I  mentioned. 
She  would  like  to  have  been  here  herself,  but  cannot,  as  she  has  given  birth  to 
a  beautiful  babj'^;  she  has  to  stay  at  home  to  take  care  of  it.  Now  Mrs.  Dowie 
will  read  her  testimony.     She  is  a  very  excellent  lady, " 

Mrs.  Dowie  before  reading  the  letter  said:  "This  lady  spoke  her  testimony 
last  Thursday  in  our  meeting;  she  intended  to  have  been  here  to-night  and  have 
■poken  it  again,  but  the  circumstances  mentioned  by  Mr.  Dowie  have  prevented 

"1123  Greenwich  Street,  San  Francisco,  ) 
November  11th,  1888.       f  I 

"  Six  years  ago  I  was  very  ill  over  in  Switzerland.  The  Doctor  Monsieur  de 
Montmolin,  one  of  the  first  doctors  in  Neuchatel,  declared  I  had  the  beginning  of 
a  cancer  in  the  womb.  He  came  every  other  day  for  several  months,  and  as  I 
got  worse  every  day  he  told  me  that  I  had  but  one  more  chance  of  recovery,  and 
that  would  be  an  operation.  I  was  shrinking  from  suffering  and  had  lost  faith  in 
his,  as  in  all  doctors',  treatment,  and  would  not  consent.  I  had  been  a  child  of 
God  for  nearly  ten  years  then;  had  worked  for  my  Master  as  a  deaconess  in  Mrs. 
Pennefather's  Deaconess  work,  Mildmay  Park,  London,  N. ,  but  had  not  known 
Christ  as  my  healer. 

"So  1  lay  one  morning,  it  was  the  27th  of  April,  1882,  helpless  and  suffering, 
in  my  bed.  I  could  scarcely  move,  when  suddenly  there  came  the  word  that 
healed  them  of  old  to  me:  *A11  they  that  touched  Him  were  healed.'  I  had 
read  these  words  many  a  time,  but  now  they  came  to  me  with  Holy  Ghost  power. 
•  Is  that  true  ?  Does  it  really  mean  what  it  says  ? '  I  asked  myself.  *  Christ  did 
not  turn  one  away;  all  were  healed  ? '  Then  came  the  devil's  argument:  *  Yes,  all 
who  touched  Him  were  healed,  but  that  was  nineteen  centuries  ago;  the  time  of 
miracles  is  past.'  I  got  sad  again,  when  God  sent  another  word:  *  Jesus  Christ, 
the  same  yesterday,  to-day,  and  forever.'  Satan  had  to  be  silent  now.  I  put 
the  two  Scripture  passages  together,  and  said  again:  'Is  that  true?  Does  it 
mean  just  what  it  said,  "  'AH  they  that  touched  Him  were  healed,'"  and,  "  *  Jesus 
Christ,  the  same  yesterday,  to-day,  and  forever'"?  'Well,  then,  I  am  going  to 
take  Thee  at  Thy  word;'  and  I  left  my  bed,  dressed  myself,  and  went  out  into 
the  kitchen  to  ask  one  of  the  girls  to  give  me  some  heavy  work  to  do.  They 
would  not,  and  urged  me  to  return  to  bed,  as  I  was  too  ill.  But  I  took  a  tub  of 
clothes,  went  out  to  the  lines  and  hung  up  two  pieces.  When  I  was  about  to 
hang  up  the  third  piece  the  pain  was  gone.  I  came  into  the  house  jumping  for 
joy,  telling  the  girls  the  Lord  had  healed  me. 

"  The  next  day  the  doctor  came.  I  underwent  one  more  examination,  after 
which  the  doctor  shook  his  head.  *  What  is  the  matter  now? '  I  said.  '  Well,' 
he  answered,  *  your  sickness  is  treacherous,  as  all  this  kind  will  be.  I  don't  see 
anything  of  it^  but  you'll  come  to  me  in  three  days  and  see. '  Then  I  told  him 
Christ  had  healed  me  by  faith,  and  henceforth  he  would  be  my  healer.  And  so 
He  is.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  my  healer,  and  my  children's  healer,  and  He 
has  led  me  out  in  the  highway  of  holiness  and  health,  and  taught  me  to  lay 
hands  on  the  sick,  and  they  would  recover  through  Jesus. 


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"But  the  other  day  my  baby  was  very  sick."  (The  healing  of  this  child  is 
given  in  our  last  letter.)  "The  voice  came,  *Go  to  Bro.  Dowie  with  that  case.' 
When  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie  were  teaching  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  I  was  engaged  in 
Mission  work  every  evening,  and  could  not  attend  the  beautiful  meetings;  and, 
sad  to  say,  I  was  told  by  some  Christian  worker  not  to  believe,  and  to  enforce 
it  they  took  the  passage,  *  A  stranger  will  they  [my  sheep]  not  follow,  for  they 
know  not  the  voice  of  a  stranger. '  But  when  dear  Sister  Dowie  held  her  meeting 
for  ladies  only,  I  was  disengaged,  went,  and  then  I  saw  it  was  not  the  voice  of 
a  stranger,  it  was  Christ  speaking  through  one  of  His  children. 

"  And  now  how  shall  I  praise  the  Lord  for  having  allowed  me  to  take  part 
and  listen  to  the  beautiful,  wonderful  teaching  of  one  who  is  not  the  voice  of  a 
stranger,  but  one  who  speaks  the  words  that  give  life  and  health  to  all  who 
believe,  the  words  of  the  great  Shepherd,  *  I  have  come  that  they  might  have 
life,  and  that  they  mi^ht  have  it  more  abundantly.'  T.  L.  Boillot." 

Mrs.  Dowie  contmues:  "Mrs.  Boillot  sends  me  this:  'Dear  Mrs.  Dowie: 
I  promised  in  the  meeting  on  Thursday  night  to  give  my  testimony  this  evening, 
but  I  am  unable  to  be  there  in  the  body,  so  I  have  written  it  down  while  sitting 
in  bed;  so  please  excuse  my  scribble.  I  am  praying  with  you  in  spirit  this 
afternoon.         Your  sister  in  the  Lord.' " 

Healing  of  an  Episcopalian  Minister  at  Saucelito. 

**  I  have  a  letter  which  I  will  read:— 

***Dear  Mr.  Dowie:  The  Rev.  Mr.  Reed,  a  minister  of  Saucelito,  for  whom 
you  prayed  at  Sacramento,  wishes  to  give  thanks  to  God  [I  like  this — 'thanks 
to  God*]  for  his  recovery.  He  had  been  given  up  by  physicians,  and  was  sup- 
posed to  be  dying  of  consumption.     May  God  bless  you  and  dear  Mrs.  Dowie. 

*  Yours  in  Jesus,  May  Jackson.' 

**  Is  little  Miss  May  Jackson  here  ?  [She  made  known  her  presence.]  Is  that 
so,  dear  Miss  Jackson  ?  " 

"Yes,  sir." 

"You  are  authorized  to  send  this  letter?  " 

"Yes,  sir." 

**  He  is  your  minister,  is  he  ? " 

"Yes,  sir." 

"  The  Lord  bless  you.     Miss  Jackson  was  healed  in  the  first  Mission." 

"  Now  I  am  always  glad  to  get  somebody  healed  belonging  to  the  ministry. 
The  Lord  bless  Mr.  Reed." 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  an  Aged  Scotch  Lady  Who  Had 
Been  Aflaicted  with  Rheiimatism  for  Twenty  Years. 

We  then  read  the  following  letter,  written  by  Mrs.  Mary  Castell,  530^  Olive 
Avenue,  San  Francisco: — 

**Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie — Dear  Servants  of  the  Lord:  At  your  request  I  write 
you  these  few  lines.  I  attended  your  meetings,  and  listened  to  your  lessons  on 
faith.  After  one  of  the  meetings  I  went  into  the. healing  room,  and  after  you 
had  laid  your  hands  on  me,  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus,  through  faith  in  Him, 
I  was  perfectly  healed.  My  limbs  and  ankles  were  very  weak  at  first.  They 
have  been  strengthened  very  much  since  then.  Glory  to  God.  He  hears  and 
answers  prayer  for  His  Son's  sake.     My  trouble  is  rheumatism. 

"  Your  sister  in  Christ. " 

Mr.  Dowie  asked:  "Is  that  all  right ? " 

"Yes,  all  right,"  responded  an  old  Scotch  lady  in  the  audience.  She  then 
got  up  and  commenced  to  speak,  when  Mr.  Dowie  said:  "Come  up  close  to  the 
reporters.  You  are  worth  looking  at."  She  then  stood  beside  the  reporter's 
table,  and  said: — 

*  *  The  first  day  that  I  went  into  the  Mission  I  was  so  bad  with  my  legs  that 
when  I  got  up  to  go  out  I  didn't  know  how  in  the  world  I  would  get  about.     I 
have  been  afflicted  for  twenty  years.     I  suffer  particularly  when  there  is  a  change 
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of  the  weather.  In  the  last  year  I  have  been  very  lame,  and  suflFered  more  than 
tongue  can  tell.  I  would  go  to  bed,  and  perhaps  for  two  hours,  and  sometimes 
for  half  the  night,  I  could  not  sleep  for  the  aching.  In  this  weather  we  have 
to-day  I  would  have  been  just  terrible  bad  if  I  had  not  been  healed." 

Mr.  Dowie  asked:  "How  long  did  it  take  to  heal  you ? " 

' '  A  moment. "     ('* Hallelujah ! "  from  the  audience. ) 

Glory  to  God;  I  am  delighted  to  see  you. 

She  added:  "The  grand  baptism  from  the  Holy  Ghost  was  as  good  as  the 
healing,  and  my  soul  is  full.  Glory  to  God."  (This  produced  much  feeling  in 
the  audience,  and  there  were  hallelujahs  and  clapping  of  hands.)  Mr.  Dowie 
remarked  that  she  was  from  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  the  place  he  himself  came 
from. 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  Eight  Years'  Rheumatism. 

Mrs.  Agusta  Anderson,  residing  on  Third  Street,  below  Mission,  San  Fran- 
cisco, wrote  as  follows: — 

"This  is  to  certify  that  I  have  been  laid  up  with  rheumatism  for  the  last 
eight  years,  so  that  I  was  helpless  and  could  not  even  dress  myself,  and  the  pain 
was  intolerable,  until  at  last  I  found  relief  and  instant  healing  through  faith  in 
the  Lord  Jesus,  when  you  laid  hands  upon  me  yesterday  in  the  Grand  Opera 
House.  I  hope  that  others  will  do  the  same,  giving  themselves  to  the  Lord.  I 
wish  to  thank  you  and  to  thank  God,  who  uses  you  in  this  work." 

Turning  to  the  lady,  Mr.  Dowie  inquired,  "Is  that  true?" 

Mrs.  Anderson,  who  was  on  the  platform,  came  forward  and  said:  "That  is 
true,  and  I  have  been  happier  than  I  have  been  in  all  my  life.  From  that 
moment  I  felt  the  pains  go  away.  I  have  had  such  feelings  and  been  so  lifted 
up  that  it  has  relieved  me  from  all  unhappiness  and  all  sorrow.  I  believe  in 
Christ.  Friday  I  felt  I  ought  to  give  myself  to  Christ,  and  yesterday  I  promised 
Christ  I  should  be  His,  and  I  was  healed  at  once. 

"I  used  to  be  so  unhappy  I  could  not  sleep  at  night.  I  say.  May  God  in 
Heaven  help  me.  I  don't  get  no  help.  I  did  not  give  my  heart  to  Christ.  I 
thank  the  Lord  that  I  had  to  do  it,  and  I  never  will  go  back.  I  have  been  eight 
years  ill.  I  could  not  lift  a  spoon  to  my  mouth.  I  could  not  handle  a  knife. 
For  four  years  I  could  not  do  any  work." 

Can  you  do  everything  now  ? 

"  Yesterday  noon  I  went  over  to  a  lady  friend  of  mine,  who  is  sitting  right 
there,  and  she  asked  me  to  sit  down  and  dine  with  her,  and  she  asked  me  if  I 
would  take  some  coffee,  and  it  was  the  first  cup  of  cofiee  I  have  been  able  to  lift 
to  my  mouth  for  the  last  eight  months." 

(Mr.  Dowie  asked  the  lady  she  referred  to,  if  she  would  stand  up  and  confirm 
that.  The  lady  did  so,  and  gave  her  name  as  Louisa  Zeigler,  residing  in  San 
Francisco,  at  71  Natoma  Street.     Mr.  Dowie  asked:  "  Is  that  so ? ") 

"Yes,  sir." 

How  long  have  you  known  her  ? 

"For  three  years." 

Mrs.  Anderson  then  continued:  "She  knows  I  have  been  unable  to  dress 
myself;  I  had  to  wait  until  someone  come  around  the  house  and  ask  them  to 
help  me  put  my  clothes  on;  I  could  not  button  my  shoes;  I  could  not  reach  my 
hands  to  my  head.  I  can  now  put  my  hands  to  my  head,  and  to  my  back — I 
can  do  evtrything.  A  week  ago  I  met  a  gentleman  on  the  street,  Mr.  Dan  Mc- 
Carthy. I  lived  in  their  house  when  they  were  first  married;  but  I  had  not  seen 
him  since  I  had  this  trouble  until  then,  and  he  and  his  wife  shook  hands  with  me, 
and  I  nearly  fell  on  the  sidewalk,  and  I  screamed,  and  said,  'Don't  double  my 
hand  so  much  as  that.'  He  told  his  mother-in-law  I  was  so  bad  with  rheumatism 
he  felt  awful  sorry  for  me.  Now  I  can  shake  hands  with  everybody  and  any. 
body,  thank  God." 

(The  lady  while  speaking  illustrated  how  she  could  use  her  arms  by  raising 
her  hands  to  her  head,  placing  them  far  behind  her  back,  and  reaching  down  to 
her  feet,  not  only  doing  it  with  apparent  ease,  but  gracefully.) 


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Restoration  of  Sight  after  Twelve  Years'  Blindness. 

The  following  letter  written  by  Mrs.  Gleason,  of  187  Turk  Street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, on  behalf  of  Mrs.  Castro,  of  San  Pablo  RaMch,  West  Berkeley,  gives  an  in- 
teresting and  detailed  account  of  her  healing,  which  has  attracted  much  attention 
in  the  social  circle  to  which  Mrs.  Castro  belongs,  and  has  also  interested  many 
specialists  who  have  treated  this  lady  in  vain  for  many  years.  The  case  has 
made  a  profound  impression,  and  has  been  followed  by  much  blessing  to  many 
persons. 

"Dear  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie:  I  feel  it  a  great  pivilege  that  I  have  been 
permitted  to  witness  and  give  testimony  to  the  visitation  of  Christ  in  our  midst 
with  His  healing  power,  bringing  His  word  to  us  with  living  reality.  This  morn- 
ing I  was  too  late  to  bring  to  the  Lord's  table  the  dear  sister  who  was  so  blessed 
in  the  restoration  of  her  sight,  but  I  was  not  too  late  to  listen  to  the  story  of  her 
healing,  with  the  earnest  request  that  I  should  give  it  to  the  meeting  as  a  thank- 
offering  in  part  for  the  unspeakable  blessing.  I  dare  not  attempt  to  give  it  in  the 
language  of  her  inspired  soul,  inspired  so  thoroughly  with  the  spirit  and  love  of 
Ood. 

"She  said:  'When  I  went  into  the  healing  room  the  first  week  of  the  Mis- 
sion I  had  never  seen  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie  before.  I  explained  to  him  that 
twelve  years  ago  I  was  thrown  from  my  carriage,  receiving  a  spinal  injury.  From 
that  time  for  about  a  year  a  star  cataract  formed  over  each  of  my  eyes,  slowly  but 
Surely  shutting  out  all  earthly  objects,  as  well  as  the  faces  of  my  loved  ones. 
All  these  years  I  have  prayed  for  patience  to  bear  my  affliction,  appealing  in  vain 
to  the  best  surgeons  we  had,  getting  always  the  same  sad  sentence,  "No  human 
skill  can  reach  your  case;  the  Knife  would  destroy  all  hope."  So  I  rested  until  I 
was  led  to  Dr.  Dowie,  believing,  as  I  had  heard  he  taught,  that  Christ  was  the 
same  yesterday,  to-day  and  forever.  After  the  discourse  I  sought  the  healing 
room,  and  I  felt  a  soft  hand,  as  though  it  were  the  hand  of  an  angel, 
and  Mrs.  Dowie's  sweet  voice  rose  in  prayer.  As  she  prayed  I  seemed  to  hear  a 
voice  saying,  "Daughter,  thy  sins  are  forgiven  thee,"  and  when  Dr.  Dowie  laid 
his  hands  on  my  eyes  I  felt  distinctly  the  cataracts  give  way,  like  bursting  asun- 
der; I  arose  and  instantly  saw  quite,  a  number  of  objects  and  the  figures  of  those 
around  me.  You  can  only  faintly  imagine  the  joy  of  such  a  ray  of  sunlight,  such 
a  certainty  that  my  God  still  loved  me.  Over  a  week  passed  and  I  went  about, 
as  the  Scriptures  say,  "  Seeing  men  as  trees  walking,"  and  in  certain  lights  other 
things  dimly  At  another  meeting  Dr.  Dowie  said,  "  I  would  like  to  see  you 
again,  when  I  believe  the  Lord  will  perfect  the  healing."  Wednesday,  10  o'clock, 
was  fixed  upon,  at  his  rooms  at  the  hotel.  We  had  a  little  talk,  as  the  Dr.  calls 
it,  although  he  had  worked  all  night.  He  took  a  seat  in  front  of  me  for  a  moment, 
then  went  behind  me,  telling  me  to  try  and  realize  that  Jesus,  my  healer,  was  in 
his  place,  while  he  laid  his  hands  again  on  my  eyes  and  prayed.  We  all  prayed 
earnestly.  That  sacred  moment  may  I  never  forget,  feeling  the  presence  of  the 
Holy  Spirit  filling  the  room.  Dr.  Dowie  then  led  me  to  the  light.  There  is  no 
language  to  describe  what  followed ;  I  had  the  joy  of  seeing  my  friend's  face  I 
had  never  seen  before,  other  faces,  the  hands  on  the  watch,  books,  colors,  etc. ' 

'*  Now  I  must  tell  you  how  we  went  from  there  to  the  Opera  House  meeting, 
and  taking  in  many  sights  on  the  street,  enjoying  even  the  shop  windows,  for,  as 
she  expressed  it,  it  seemed  as  if  she  had  just  returned  from  a  long  journey.  Two 
days  after  still  more  wonderful  sights  met  her  clearer  vision,  when  she  read  a 
sign.  Added  to  this  blessing  of  sight  she  has  been  greatly  strengthened  in  mind 
and  body,  enabling  her  to  walk  on  the  street  as  she  has  not  done  all  these  years. 
This  morning  I  found  her  both  cheerful  and  happy,  her  sight  growing  clearer 
every  day,  and  I  might  say,  every  hour.  When  she  says,  '  Whereas  I  was  blind, 
now  I  see, '  we  praise  the  Lord  we  are  not  like  the  Jews,  for  we  believe  and  know 
who  our  Healer  is." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "This  lady  the  Lord  has  given  sight  to  after  twelve  years, 
and  may  He  be  glorified."  ("  Amens,"  from  the  people.)  "  I  take  no  glory;  all 
glory  be  to  Him  who  does  it."  (Cries  of  "Hallelujah.")  Mrs.  Castro  was  present  in 
the  meeting  and  confirmed  the  testimony.  She  is  attending  our  present  Mis- 
sion and  progressing  daily. 


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Instantaneous  Healing  of  a  Lady  Who  Came  on  Cratches. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Rodenbach,  of  Foley  Street,  Alameda,  said:  "  I  came  on 
crutches  to  the  Opera  House  two  weeks  ago,  and  now  through  faith  in  Jesus  I 
have  got  healing.  My  leg,  which  was  very  much  injured,  is  getting  stronger  and 
stronger.  I  did  not  have  the  use  of  my  right  limb,  but  now  I  can  walk  without 
crutch  or  cane.  I  was  about  two  months  on  crutches.  After  Mr.  Bowie  laid  his 
hands  upon  me  I  was  able  to  leave  his  room  and  walk  away  from  the  Opera  House 
and  carry  my  crutches." 

Salvation  and  Healing. 

Mf.  Edwin  McDonald,  lodging  at  the  Empire  Hotel,  San  FranciSdO,  gave  a 
very  interesting  testimony.  He  spoke  (Si  having  first  heard  us  at  SacTamenj;o 
during  our  mission  there,  and  had  been  deeply  impressed.  He  came  to  the  city 
and  found  salvation  and  healing  in  the  Opera  House;  he  was  healed  of  rheumatism. 
He  said:  "  I  am  not  so  much  amazed  at  the  healing  of  my  body  as  I  am  that  our 
blessed  Savior,  who  saves  perfectly,  saves  and  keeps  a  rebellious  sinner  such  as  I 
have  been.  I  have  been  the  chief  of  sinners,  not  a  moral  man  at  all.  I  have 
earned  quite  good  wages  and  had  an  iron  constitution;  but  I  sought  pleasure  in 
all  directions;  I  have  been  a  pugilist  in  the  ring;  I  have  done  everything  that  was 
sinful,  except  that  I  never  murdered  anyone,  but  I  have  done  everything  else; 
to  think  that  God  would  pardon,  save^  and  keep  a  man  like  me  and  put  me  where 
I  am  now,  seems  amazing.  Healing  seems  very  little  in  comparison,  and  it  came 
very  easily  to  me.  I  feel  that  I  am  thoroughly  converted  and  that  my  name  is 
written  in  Heaven,  and  by  the  grace  of  God  I  will  never  take  one  step  back." 

He  then  gave  details  as  to  how  the  word  we  had  preached  had  been  blessed 
to  him,  and  how  the  testimony  of  Mr.  M.  C,  Ryan  in  a  meeting  of  the  Salvation 
Army  had  impressed  him.  He  had  heard  Mr.  Ryan  say,  "  I  have  been  led  to 
Christ  through  the  wonderful  words  and  the  wonderful  works  of  God  which  I 
have  heard  and  seen  in  the  Grand  Opera  House;  the  things  that  I  have  seen  in  Dr. 
Dowie's  meetings  at  the  Opera  House  would  confound  Bob  Ingersoll;  t  oelieve  it 
would  convert  him  if  he  were  there." 

Mr.  McDonald  continued:  "When  I  heard  Mr.  Ryan  say  that  I  enquired 
where  this  Opera  House  was,  for  it  was  there  I  wanted  to  be,  as  I  had  heard  Mr. 
Dowie  in  Sacramento. 

*'  The  first  night  I  came  I  sought  the  Lord  and  he  took  me  in;  he  saved  me;  he 
healed  me,  and  he  keeps  me  all  the  time.  Hallelujah."  ("Amens  '"  from  the  audi- 
ence.) 

This  young  man  has  been  instrumental  since  his  conversion  in  leading  a  con- 
siderable number  of  persons  to  Christ,  and  is  working  daily  with  us  in  our  pres- 
ent Mission,  bringing  in  many  every  day  to  seek  salvation  and  healing.  His 
energy  is  amazing,  and  he  has  entirely  consecrated  this  month  to  this  service  of 
God  in  connection  with  our  Mission,  and  has  laid  aside  his  work  (that  of  a  car- 
penter) for  the  time  being. 

Healing  of  a  Russian  Lady  of  Consumption. 

Mr.  Dowie  then  introduced  a  Russian  lady  by  the  name  of  Madame  Faodo- 
rofif.  He  said:  "  I  may  say  I  had  the  very  great  pleasure  a  while  ago  to  receive 
a  request  for  prayer  from  St.  Petersburg.  May  God  bless  the  Russian  nation;  I 
hope  to  go  there  some  day. 

The  lady  stepped  forward  and  said:  **I  can  praise  the  Lord  to-night  that  I 
am  on  the  Lord's  side,  and  the  Lord  is  on  my  side.  I  am  only  a  short  time  in 
this  State,  and  I  have  given  my  testimony  quite  often  in  all  the  churches  and 
meetings  wherever  I  have  been.  It  is  said,  '  We  shall  confess,  or  else  the  stones 
will  speak.'  It  is  three  years  ago  since  I  found  the  Lord  Jesus  for  my  Savior 
and  for  my  healer.  My  body  has  been  broken  down  with  consumption.  I  think 
everyone  knows  what  a  disease  that  is;  there  was  no  help  for  me.  Two  of  my 
brothers  were  doctors;  they  died.  We  had  three  drug  stores  in  all.  What  was 
in  there  they  tried,  but  no  help.     It  was  ten  of  us  in  the  family,  but  they  alJ 


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died  of  this  disease.  So  I  know  it  was  coming  on  me;  I  know  there  was  no  help.] 
Of  course  the  doctors  were  trying  to  save  me,  but  they  could  not.  I  never  had  a 
thought  for  a  ftioment  that  I  could  live.  I 

•'  I  was  brought  up  as  a  child  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  and  you  know 
that  is  nothing  but  a  dead  religion.  Afterward  the  Lord  was  with  me  in  my 
young  age ;  I  wanted  to  find  the  Lord,  and  I  went  to  the  Lutheran  Church,  but  I 
did  not  get  what  I  wanted  j  I  wanted  more.  Then  I  seen  death  come  before  me, 
and  the  Professor  told  me,  *  You  can  live  no  more  than  three  weeks. '  Well,  I 
knowed  it,  for  the  way  I  cough  and  pieces  of  my  lung  come  up  as  big  as  a  hazel 
nut;  I  thought  I  could  not  live.  I  didn't  care  ;  I  only  wanted  to  know  that  I 
could  be  saved. 

"  Then  a  lady  taught  me  about  Divine  Healing  ;  that  was  down  in  the  East. 
I  never  would  come  in  a  Christian  meeting  like  this  here,  for  I  thought  I  would 
lose  all  the  religion  that  I  ever  had.  I  did  not  have  faith  to  touch  the  Lord,  but 
I  pray  that  the  Lord  give  me  faith  to  believe  and  touch  his  garment ;  and  I  went 
on  and  pray  all  night,  *  Lord,  is  it  Thy  will,  give  me  faith  that  I  may  touch  Thee, 
that  only  my  soul  may  be  saved.'  I  don't  care  for  the  body.  As  I  was  brought 
in  the  meeting  I  seen  the  happy  faces  of  the  Christians,  and,  *oh,'  I  says,  *  I  have 
what  the  Lord  give  me  in  silver  and  gold,  but  I  have  not  what  my  heart  wants, ' 
ior  I  know  that  I  didn't  have  everlasting  life.  But  in  a  moment  I  believe  that 
Jesus  was  able  to  overcome  my  sins,  and  when  I  cried  out,  'Jesus  of  Nazareth  is 
passing  by  ;  save  me  now,'  (I  know  Jesus  was  near  by),  he  took  me  up  and  called 
me  his  daughter.  And  I  know  in  a  moment  when  I  gave  my  heart  to  Jesus  I 
was  healed.  It  was  well  with  my  soul,  and  I  was  just  as  well  as  I  am  now  stand- 
ing here  before  you.  And  He  spoke  to  me  and  says,  *  There  is  no  death  for  you; 
there  is  everlasting  life. ' 

"And  since  the  three  years  ago  T  am  rejoicing.  A  good  many  say  that  this  is 
Mind  Healing  ;  but  I  know  what  the  Lord  has  done  unto  me ;  He  has  given  ever- 
lasting life.  And  a  good  many  say  of  these  meetings  of  Brotker  Bowie's,  that  is 
Mind  Healing.  O  my  Christian  friends,  come  and  try  this  Mind  Healing ; 
what  you  can't  buy  for  money,  but  only  by  the  blood  of  Christ."  (**  Amens"  from 
the  congregation. )  **  Come  and  give  yourself  entirely  to  the  Lord.  The  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  is  willing  to  save  you  and  to  heal  you.  Oh,  what  a  joy  is  this  having  ever- 
lasting life. 

"  I  was  healed  three  years  ago  in  Chicago.  I  was  supposed  to  be  dying  at 
that  time.     It  was  by  my  faith  in  Jesus."     (Applause.) 

Healing  of  an  Injured  Hand  of  27  Years;  Injured  Feet  of 

1 6  Years ;  Catarrh  Since  Infancy  ;    Serious  Injury 

to  the  Right  Eye ;  and  Dislocation  of  the  Arm. 

Mrs.  H.  Sparman  of  Sutter  Street,  near  San  Pablo  Avenue,  Oakland,  said  : 
*'  I  want  to  thank  God  for  sending  His  Son  on  earth  to  heal  and  to  save  the  peo- 
ple. I  praise  Him  for  healing  my  hands  which  I  have  had  chapped  for  over  27 
years. 

Nearly  16  years  ago  I  used  to  wear  too  small  shoes,  and  my  feet  got  to  be 
all  spoiled;  some  of  my  toes  were  all  cramped  up."  (Mr.  Dowie  interjected, 
' '  You  deserved  it. ")  *'  Last  Thursday,  after  hearing  your  teaching,  I  went  to  the 
Lord  and  told  Him  all  about  it.  He  had  healed  me,  through  your  agency,  of  my 
injured  hands,  and  I  asked  Him  to  heal  these  without  any  human  touch.  When 
I  was  undressing  I  found  to  my  great  surprise  that  my  toes  were  all  straight  and 
my  feet  in  right  shape.  Before  my  feet  used  to  pain  me  all  the  time,  but  I  am 
now  quite  free.     I  give  God  all  the  glory. " 

Mr.  Dowie  turned  to  a  large,  heavy-set  man  on  the  platform  and  asked,  "  Is 
iihat  lady  your  wife  ?  " 
He  said,  **  Yes,  sir." 

"  And  you  know  her  toes  were  crooked  and  are  now  straight  ?" 

**  Yes,  sir,"  he  said. 

The  lady  continued:  **I  have  had  catarrh  since  I  was  an  infant;  now  the 
Xord  has  healed  me.     Thanks  be  to  his  holy  name. 

•'Over  nineteen  years  ago  I  was  in  Stockholm,  Sweden,  and  I  had  pimples 


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all  around  my  eyes.  [Mr.  Dowie,  "Why,  there  is  a  whole  catalogue."]  I  went 
to  the  greatest  professor  there,  whose  name  was  Busardo,  to  get  my  eyes  cured, 
and  he  gave  me  some  salve  to  put  on,  and,  after  using  the  medicine,  I  became 
blind  in  my  right  eye,  and  during  the  last  few  years  I  could  see  but  little  in  that 
right  eye.  But  the  Lord  has  healed  me  now  in  that  eye,  so  that  I  can  see  with 
it  very  well  indeed.  Glory  be  to  God.  And  then  there  is  another  thing.  [Mr. 
Dowie,  "What  a  catalogue!"] 

"I  had  my  arm  out  of  joint  July  28,  and  I  asked  Mr.  Dowie,  when  in  Oak- 
land, to  pray  for  me.  The  Lord  healed  me,  and  I  can  now  do  my  house-work, 
and  I  don't  feel  any  pain  in  it  at  all,  and  give  God  all  the  glory." 

Healed  of  RheTimatism  and  Dyspepsia. 

Mr.  Carl  Sparman,  who  spoke  in  somewhat  broken  and  indistinct  English, 
gave  his  testimony.  He  is  the  husband  of  the  lady  last  above  mentioned.  He 
said:  "  I  was  very  much  troubled  with  rheumatism  and  dyspepsia  for  many, 
many  years.  I  drink  medicine  like  a  mule  drink  water.  When  others  buy  a 
pint  I  buy  a  gallon.  I  take  no  less  than  twenty-five  bottles  of  one  kind  of 
medicine,  and  it  do  me  no  good.  A  week  ago  to-morrow  I  come  over  into  the 
Opera  House  to  hear  Mr.  Dowie,  and  he  say  how  Jesus  can  heal.  Then  I  think 
that  is  true,  and  that  I  will  give  up  myself  entirely  to  Jesus.  I  go  to  him,  and 
the  next  morning  I  found  something  there;  I  found  Jesus.  Jesus  has  healed  my 
wife  from  everythings,  and  so  he  has  me.  Just  as  he  has  saved  me,  so  he  has 
healed  me.  I  give  glory  to  God  for  what  He  did  for  me.  That  time  when  I 
prayed  all  the  pain  was  taken  away,  and  never  came  back. 

"I  thank  God,  also,  for  the  healing  of  my  family.  My  boy  was  sick  last 
Wednesday,  and  my  little  girl  four  years  old  was  sick.  I  say  to  my  wife,  there 
is  only  one  way  to  do;  pray  to  God  to  help  us,  for  we  cannot  use  any  medicine 
now.  I  don't  put  my  horse  in  the  wagon  and  go  for  the  doctor  any  more.  All 
what  I  got  belong  to  God.  My  wife  and  children  belong  to  God;  I  give  up  all 
to  God.  And  when  we  prayed  God  heard,  and  He  healed,  and  I  thank  Dr.  Dowie 
for  the  teaching. " 

Repetition  of  Former  Testimony  of  Healing  of  Twenty- 
three  Years'  Deafness. 

Mr.  Thorbald  Ber,  655  Howard  Street,  San  Francisco,  who  was  very  re- 
markably healed  during  the  previous  testimony  meeting,  whose  case  was  men- 
tioned in  a  postscript  to  our  last  report,  arose  and  said:  "Friends,  I  got  to  tell 
you  to-night  what  Christ  did  for  me.  He  saved  me  four  years  ago,  and  two 
weeks  ago,  in  the  Grand  Opera  House,  during  such  a  meeting  as  this,  he  healed 
me.  I  had  been  deaf  in  one  of  my  ears  for  twenty-three  years,  and  when  someone 
was  testifying  that  they  had  been  healed,  I  asked  the  Lord  to  heal  me,  and  so  He 
did,  and  I  thank  Him  for  it  to-day. " 

I  tested  him  in  various  ways,  requesting  him  to  close  his  right  ear,  and  every 
test  was  instantly  responded  to.  This  case  created  a  great  deal  of  interest  in  the 
meeting,  and  has  made  a  deep  impression  upon  large  numbers  of  young  men  in 
the  city. 

Testimony  of  Onr  Reporter,  Mr.  G-.  H.  Hawes. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "Now  I  have  got  one  most  important  testimony  before  we 
close.  I  want  you  all  to  hear  this  testimony.  My  dear  friend,  the  reporter  of 
all  our  testimony  meetings,  a  gentleman  well  known  in  the  stenographic  world, 
and  whom  I  want  to  thank  publicly  for  the  excellent  manner  in  which  he  has 
reported  our  testimony  meetings,  said  to  me  this  afternoon,  *  I  feel  like  speaking 
to-night,  Doctor. '  Then  I  said :  *  You  shall,  and  I  shall  be  very  glad  to  hear 
you.'  He  said:  *I  would  like  especially  to  mention  what  I  witnessed  of  your 
own  healing. '     I  said,  '  Tell  whatever  you  like. ' 

"Our  friend  wants  to  speak  now  as  the  oflBcial  reporter  of  my  meetings.    He 


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has  reported  all  our  testimony  meetings,  save  the  one  at  Sacramento.  He  lias 
been  with  me  all  around  the  Missions,  and  he  is  reporting  this  meeting  to-night. 
While  he  speaks  his  assistant  will  take  down  what  he  says.  Now  I  just  want 
Mr.  Hawes  to  speak  as  he  may  be  led,  I  again  express  my  personal  thanks  to 
him  for  the  excellent  M'ay  in  which  he  has  done  his  work,  and  for  his  volunteer 
testimony. " 

The  reporter  mounted  the  high  platform,  stepping  from  the  top  of  the  table 
on  which  he  had  been  writing,  and  was  received  by  a  welcoming  hand  from  Mr. 
Bowie.     Then,  turning  to  the  large  audienc*  before  him,  he  said: — 

*'  It  has  been  my  privilege,  friends,  to  witness  and  experience  a  great  many 
wonderful  things  during  my  life,  but  among  the  most  remarkable,  and  which  I 
can  never  forget,  are  those  I  have  experienced  the  last  four  months  in  connection 
with  Mr.  Dowie  in  his  testimony  meetings  and  assisting  him  in  his  correspond- 
ence, where  I  have  seen  and  known  him  as  many  of  you  have  not;  where  I  have 
seen  him  replying  to  this  great  mass  of  correspondence,  which  had  already  ac- 
cumulated in  great  quantities  when  I  first  met  him,  in  July  last,  while  conduct- 
ing the  first  Mission  in  San  Francisco.  I  would  like  to  say  in  a  general  way  that 
I  have  been  surprised  at  the  numerous  testimonies  (which  I  have  reported,  and 
afterwards  written  out,  and  therefore  had  an  opportunity  of  scanning  and  con- 
sidering very  closely),  in  regard  to  the  great  variety  of  cases  that  have  been  healed, 
and  the  severity  of  them;  the  organic  troubles  of  long  standing,  among  all  classes 
and  nationalities,  male  and  female,  young  and  old.  I  have  talked  with  some  of 
those  who  have  been  healed,  who  have  gone  into  details,  perhaps,  more  than  at 
the  public  meetings,  and  they  have  described  to  me  strange  and  wonderful  sensa- 
tions when  undergoing  the  healing  process,  showing  that  a  powerful  and  subtle 
force  was  operating  upon  them.  You  have  heard  these  testimonies,  and  I  will 
not  dwell  upon  them. 

*'  After  I  had  been  with  Bro.  Dowie  for  some  time  and  saw  that  these  cures 
were  efiected,  and  were  permanent  in  character,  I  had  a  strong  desire  to  have  him 
visit  one  who  is  xety  near  and  dear  to  me,  a  sister  with  whom  I  have  spent  nearly 
twenty  years  in  California.  She  has  been  an  invalid  for  over  twenty-five  years, 
and  has  suffered  more  than  tongue  can  tell.  Early  in  life  she  became  a  victim  of 
that  dreadful  disease,  consumption.  She  was  told  by  Dr.  Fitch,  a  celebrated 
lung  physician  of  Massachusetts,  that  she  could  not  long  survive.  She  has  also 
been  afflicted  with  serious  heart  difficulty,  spinal  disease,  and  other  troubles. 
A  year  ago  she  returned  from  the  East  to  California,  after  spending  fi  ve  years  in 
the  New  England  States.  For  some  months  after  her  return  she  improved  con- 
siderably, but  last  May  she  was  taken  severely  ill.  She  was  troubled  with  great 
derangement  of  the  heart,  sleeplessness  and  nervous  prostration;  was  only  able  to 
sleep  two  or  three  hours  a  night  for  weeks,  and  appetite  very  poor.  You  can 
imagine  what  a  condition  she  was  iii  under  these  circumstances.  While  her 
lungs  were  not  seriously  affected,  she  was  never  free  from  soreness  in  the  right 
lung,  which  she  felt  very  keenly  whenever  she  moved,  raised  her  hand  or  took  a 
long  breath. 

"  I  asked  Brother  Dowie  to  visit  her  sick  chamber,  but  waited  a  long  time  be- 
fore he  did;  he  was  so  constantly  employed  and  the  pressure  upon  him  was  so 
great  from  the  sick  and  suffering  and  dying,  that  I  almost  despaired  of  ever  getting 
him  to  the  house.  But  after  his  return  from  the  San  Jose  Mission,  he  and  his 
dear  wife  went  to  her  bedside,  prayed  and  laid  hands  upon  her.  Although  she 
had  been  suffering  for  several  days  before  with  pain,  it  all  immediately  ceased. 
The  pain  in  her  lung,  and  soreness,  entirely  disappeared,  and  not  a  vestige  of  it 
has  since  returned,  and  that  was  several  weeks  ago.  The  action  of  the  heart 
greatly  improved.  In  the  latter  part  of  May  she  had  an  attack  of  neuralgia  of  the 
heart,  which  physicians  consider  very  dangerous.  A  prominent  physician  in  this 
city  who  was  attending  her  said  he  never  saw  a  patient  in  such  agony,  and  come 
so  near  death,  and  live. 

"Two  weeks  ago  to-day  Brother  Dowie  and  his  wife  again  visited  and  laid 
hands  upon  her,  with  still  more  remarkable  effects  than  the  first  visit.  For  a 
time  she  experienced  a  sinking,  deathly  sensation,  and  became  speechless,  but  soon 
a  marked  change  occurred,  new  life  and  strength  poured  in  upon  the  system,  and 
she  exclaimed,  with  brightened  countenance,    *0h,  I  am  better!  yes,  I  am  feeling 

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better! '  And  she  has  kept  on  'feeling  better  '  and  improving  from  that  time  to 
this,  and  she  told  me  yesterday,  if  it  were  pleasant  to-day  and  she  had  a  carriage 
to  take  her,  she  felt  she  was  alDle  to  come  to  the  meeting.  Now  here  is  a  remark- 
able result  that  transpired  under  my  own  eye. 

**  But  I  desire  to  particularly  mention  another  event  I  witnessed  which  has  not 
been  mentioned  in  any  of  these  meetings  that  I  am  aware  of.  It  occurred  in  San 
Jose  at  the  Closing  Praise  and  Testimony  Meeting.  I  arrived  there  a  little  while 
before  the  meeting  commenced.  Brother  Dowie  left  Dr.  Jewell's  church  at 
quarter  past  seven;  he  had  laid  hands  on  about  one  hundred  and  thirty  persons, 
and  was  hurrying  away  from  the  throng  that  still  pressed  around  him,  to  return 
to  the  hotel  for  supper  and  prepare  for  the  evening  exercises,  when  he  suddenly 
fell  heavily  to  the  ground  or  pavement,  striking  upon  his  left  side  and  arm,  having 
stepped  upon  a  piece  of  fruit.  When  he  arose  his  arm  hung  powerless  at  his 
side,  and  he  could  not  even  move  the  fingers  of  his  hand. 

"  He  walked  to  the  hotel  in  company  with  Mrs.  Dowie  and  a  few  friends,  where 
I  met  him  at  his  rooms.  He  was  suffering  great  agony,  and  large  drops  of  per- 
spiration were  on  his  face.  Refreshments  were  brought  in,  but  he  ate  but  little. 
He  prayed  earnestly  to  God  for  help,  you  may  rest  assured.  Soon  he  began  to 
feel  a  little  relief,  and  began  to  move  his  hand  and  the  arm  below  the  elbow.  We 
were  in  doubt  as  to  just  what  the  injury  was,  but  were  fearful  it  was  of  a  serious 
nature.  Eight  o'clock  drew  near  and  he  said  it  was  time  to  go,  and  he  boldly  led 
the  way  back  to  the  church,  which  was  then  packed  with  an  eager,  expectant  con- 
gregation. Pausing  a  moment  to  pray  with  Dr.  Jewell  in  an  anteroom  he  as- 
cended the  pulpit,  and  he  carried  right  through  one  of  the  grandest  and  most 
successful  meetings  I  have  reported.  He  was  overflowing  with  cheerfulness,  and 
the  meeting  was  unusuallj  long.  At  its  close  a  large  number  shook  hands  with 
him.  He  then  quietly  told  a  doctor  who  was  present  (Dr.  Bishop)  to  come  around 
to  his  hotel,  as  he  thought  his  shoulder  was  dislocated.  The  doctor  looked  in 
astonishment,  and  said  it  could  not  be  possible,  and  he  able  to  conduct  that  long 
service. 

"Arriving  at  his  rooms  in  the  hotel,  the  doctor  made  an  examination  and  dis- 
covered at  once  that  the  shoulder  was  out  of  joint.  4le  asked  Brother  Dowie  to 
lie  upon  the  floor,  and  the  doctor  proceeded  at  once,  with  my  own  strength  added 
to  his,  to  draw  the  arm  into  its  socket.  Not  a  sound  escaped  his  lips,  nor  expres- 
sion of  pain  was  seen  in  his  face,  and,  as  the  joint  entered  the  socket  with  a  snap, 
Brother  Dowie  bounded  to  his  feet,  swinging  the  arm  over  his  head,  exclaiming, 
*  Thank  God!  Thank  God!  I  am  all  right ! '  The  doctor  said  he  really  felt  he 
ought  to  put  some  arnica  on  it,  but  Mr.  Dowie  replied,  'The  Lord  will  do  the 
rest.' 

"About  three  days  after  this  I  met  Bro.  Dowie  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  in  this  city, 
and  my  first  question  was  in  regard  to  his  arm.  'Just  as  good  as  ever, '  he  replied, 
and  stooping  down  and  picking  up  a  chair  by  the  lov/er  front  round  he  held  it  firmly 
in  the  air  with  his  left  hand,  above  his  head.  His  words  needed  no  further 
proof.  I  have  never  had  my  shoulder  dislocated,  but  I  am  told  that  those  who 
have,  frequently  carry  their  arm  in  a  sling  for  four  or  five  months  afterwards.  I 
think  that  is  a  very  remarkable  experience,  and  it  came  directly  under  my  own 
observation. 

"I  wish  to  also  add  that  when  I  have  been  privately  with  Bro.  Dowie  receiving 
dictations  of  his  correspondence,  I  have  been  distinctly  conscious  of  a  stimu- 
lating power,  and  I  seemed  to  be  in  the  midst  of  a  fountain  of  health,  the  very  air 
permeated  with  energy.  Anyone  who  looks  upon  the  rich,  glowing  color  in  his 
face  can  see  his  physical  condition  is  splendid. 

"I  regret  very  much, as  a  citizen  of  this  community, in  which  I  feel  a  just  pride, 
and  which  claims  and  has  had  the  reputation  of  being  liberal  in  thought,  gener- 
ous and  full  of  hospitality,  that  it  should  have  the  stain  upon  it  of  having  called 
Bro.  Dowie  and  his  wife  frauds  and  imposters.  If  the  great  work  accomplished 
through  our  Australian  friends  had  been  of  a  directly  opposite  character,  the 
criticism  would  exactly  fit.  When  the  great  mass  of  testimony  gathered  here, 
which  is  going  forward  and  will  continue  to  do  so  throughout  our  land,  is  read, 
and  then  when  they  learn  of  these  strange  and  unjust  accusations,  they  surely 


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must  think  that  we  are  a  people  who  delight  in  the  propagation  and  cultivation 
of  sickness  and  disease. 

'  'What  a  terrible  thing  this  sickness  is;  it  turns  a  beautifvl  home  into  a  dungeon 
of  despair,  and  those  witlun  it  are  victims  and  prisoners  chained  and  tortured  by 
these  nameless  ills,  and  multitudes  before  the  natural  end  of  an  earthly  life  is 
reached,  pass  into  the  common  mystery  of  death.  Through  these  beautiful  and 
potent  ministrations  a  great  number  in  our  midst  have  been  released  before 
our  eyes,  and  fresh  hope  inspired  in  hundreds  of  suflerers  who  have  not  yet 
passed  under  the  healing  hand.  As  the  gratitude  and  thanksgiving  of  hundreds 
who  have  been  made  to  rejoice  through  this  health -giving  service  goes  forth  and 
encircles  our  beloved  Brother  and  Sister  Dowie,  I  know  it  will  lift  them  far  above 
all  the  obstacles  and  difficulties  placed  in  their  way,  and  that  they  will  feel  them- 
selves enriched  a  thousand  fold.  '    (A  hearty  applause.) 

A  Multitude  of  "Witnesses. 

Mr.  Dowie  then  asked  all  who  believed  the  Lord  Jesus  was  the  present  healer 
to  arise,  and  almost  instantly  it  seemed  as  if  the  whole  audience  arose  to  their 
feet.  The  hour  was  very  late,  and  the  meeting,  which  was  a  joyful  and  enthusi- 
astic one  throughout,  closed  with  the  glorious  doxology. 

Extract  from  Letter  Sent  to  *'  Leaves  of  Healing." 

Our  letter  of  December  15  contained  the  report  of  the  closing  praise  and 
testimony  meeting  (at  the  end  of  a  thirty-two  days'  Mission),  held  on  November 
the  11th,  in  the  Lyceum,  San  Francisco,  and  we  therein  referred  to  the  month's 
Mission  which  we  were  at  that  time  holding  in  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church, 
San  Francisco.  That  Mission  closed  on  the  evening  of  Lord's  day,  December  23, 
and  we  quote  the  following  facts  from  the 

Keport  of  Closing  Praise  and  Testimony  Meeting  Held  at 
the  Central  Presbyterian  Church,  Golden  Gate 
Avenue,  San  Francisco,  Monday  Even- 
ing, December  23,  1888. 

(Reported  by  G.  H.  Hawes,  320  Sansome  Street,  S.  F.) 

A  large  audience  was  present,  completely  filling  the  building,  which  seats 
about  1,000  persons.  The  platform  and  the  space  around  it  was  entirely  filled 
with  persons  who  had  been  healed  through  faith  in  Jesus,  at  least  eighty  in 
number.  Our  friend  and  brother,  the  Eev.  L.  M.  Schofield,  pastor  of  the  church, 
happened  to  be  absent  from  the  city,  to  his  great  regret,  as  he  subsequently 
stated  in  public. 

We  expressed  our  gratitude  for  the  kindness  shown  by  Mr.  Schofield,  and 
the  officers  and  members  of  the  church,  during  the  month,  and  especially  re- 
corded our  gratitude  to  God  that  our  brother,  the  pastor,  had  accepted  the 
doctrine  and  was  preaching  it. 

We  referred  in  our  opening  remarks  to  the  gracious  season  of  communion  at 
the  Lord's  table  which  we  had  enjoyed  that  afternoon  with  many  hundreds  of 
believers  in  that  place;  and  to  the  fact  that  a  number  of  ministers  had  been  in 
friendly  and  sympathetic  attendance  upon  the  meetings  during  the  month. 
Amongst  these  we  specially  noted  Rev.  Dr.  Hannon,  pastor  of  the  First  Meth- 
odist  Episcopal  Church,  South;  Rev.  Dr.  Kimball,  editor  of  the  Pacific,  the 
organ  of  the  Congregationalists,  who  spoke  and  wrote  to  us  and  concerning  us 
very  kindly;  and  Rev.  Kincaid,  minister  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  San 
Francisco,  who  heartily  invited  us  to  hold  a  Mission  in  his  church,  and  from 
whom  we  had  accepted  an  invitation  to  preach  on  the  evening  of  Lord's  day, 
December  30,  which  we  subsequently  did  to  a  large  audience,  completely  filling 
the  building.  The  Rar.  Dr.  Tileen,  president  of  the  Swedish  Lutheran  Church 
on  this  coast,  and  other  German  and  Swedish  pastors,  had  also  been  present. and 
expressed  their  sympathy  with  us  and  acceptance  of  the  doctrine  which  we 
taught.     These  facts  we  feel  it  a  privilege  to  be  able  to  record. 


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We  also  had  the  pleasure  of  introducing  to  the  great  assembly  the  local 
Vice-President  of  the  Association,  the  Eev.  Dr.  C.  F.  Lane,  late  of  Tulare;  the 
Secretary,  Elder  Cadman,  of  East  Oakland;  the  Treasurer,  Mr.  G.  Wood,  and  the 
Council  of  ten  brethren  and  sisters. 

We  had  a  very  large  number  of  written  testimonies  in  this  Mission,  and  we 
introduced  the  stream  of  witnesses  with  a  number  of  these. 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  a  Dying  Child  without  Human 

Touch. 

On  the  afternoon  of  Saturday,  December  15th,  we  received  the  following  re- 
quest for  prayer:  "Please  pray  for  a  baby  now  at  the  point  of  death  with  pneu- 
monia only  one  block  distant. " 

This  petition  came  by  the  hands  of  Mrs.  Carrie  Strayer,  516  Van  Ness  Ave- 
nue. The  following  day  (Lord's  day)  I  received  this  answer:  " God  heard  j'our 
prayer  for  that  beautiful  baby  yesterday.  At  the  time  you  were  praying — from 
3  to  4 — a  sudden  change  for  the  better  was  apparent,  and  it  is  now  healed.  Ac- 
cept the  gratitude  of  the  happy  parents. " 

At  our  request  Mrs.  Strayer  rose  and  confirmed  this  testimony.  In  advance 
I  read  the  following  letter  from  the  parents  of  the  child:  "Our  baby  was  ill  nigh 
unto  death  with  pneumonia.     She  is  three  months  old.     She  was  suflering  intense 

f)ain.  Mrs.  Strayer,  a  stranger  to  us,  entered  the  room  and  asked  if  we  would 
ike  to  have  the  baby  prayed  for  by  you  in  the  church.  We  had  no  knowledge 
or  experience  in  healing  through  faith;  but  after  her  explanations  we  gladly 
assented  to  the  kind  service  of  her  taking  the  request  to  you.  We  did  not  know 
at  what  hour  prayer  would  be  oflfered,  but  we  all  noticed  a  quick  and  decided 
change  in  the  baby  for  the  better  at  the  very  time  that  we  subsequently  found 
that  you  had  prayed.  The  doctor  calling  at  the  same  time  pronounced  her  a  dif- 
ferent child. " 

Then  they  went  on  to  tell  us  that  the  imminent  danger  was  all  ]3assed;  that 
within  a  few  days  her  recovery  was  perfectly  assured,  to  the  great  wonder  of  all 
who  saw  her  at  the  worst.  * '  We  gladly  and  gratefully  express  our  heart-felt 
thanks  to  God,  who  came  to  us  in  our  great  need,  when  our  dear  baby  was  sick; 
and  also  thank  you  and  the  lady  who  called  and  first  opened  to  us  the  possibility 
of  Divine  Healing." 

Another  Eaby  Healed  Instantly  without  Human  Touch. 

Mrs.  Rawlinson,  of  1217  Lombard  St.,  San  Francisco,  testified  that  she  had 
brought  to  us  a  petition  for  prayer  on  behalf  of  a  baby  of  a  neighbor.  The  follow- 
ing day  she  wrote:  "The  little  three  months  old  baby  you  prayed  for  last  night 
passed  a  good  night,  and  is  improving."  Mrs.  Pawlinson  then  testified  that  the 
child  was  perfectly  healed,  and  she  expressed  on  behalf  of  the  parents  their  grati- 
tude. 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  a  Fever-Stricken  Child. 

We  spoke  of  a  number  of  similar  healings  in  the  Mission,  and  said:  "A  denr 
grandmother  brought  to  me  a  baby  the  other  day.  It  was  very  ill,  and  supposed 
to  be  in  great  danger.  It  had  a  very  severe  fever  and  was  instantly  healed.  Will 
the  grandmother  rise  and  tell  us  about  the  case. " 

Mrs.  Charlick,  214^  Grove  St.,  San  Francisco,  rose  and  said:  "My  daughter 
has  sent  you  a  letter  of  thanks  concerning  this  case,  but  as  I  was  used  in  bringing 
the  dear  child  I  would  like  to  state  what  occurred. 

"My  grandchild  was  sick,  and  my  daughter  asked  me  if  I  would  go  and 
bring  some  medicine  for  the  child.  I  said,  No;  but  I  proposed  to  her  to  bring 
the  baby  to  see  Dr.  Dowie.  She  did  not  take  very  kindly  at  first  to  my  taking 
it  to  Dr.  Dowie;  but  I  persuaded  her,  and  I  brought  it.  It  was  very  sick,  and 
burning  up  with  a  fever,  and  could  not  hold  up  his  head  until  Dr.  Dowie  laid 


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his  hands  upon  him,  and  in  about  five  minutes  I  took  the  baby  away  perfecthj 
free  from  fever.  He  had  not  eaten  scarcely  anything;  but  when  I  got  home  he 
ate  and  went  to  sleep.  That  was  two  days  ago,  and  he  has  been  well  ever  since. 
The  fever  at  once  went  right  away.  Before  I  left  Dr.  Dowie's  room  the  fever 
was  entirely  gone,  and  the  little  fellow  began  eating  on  the  way  home,  for  he 
asked  me  to  buy  some  crackers,  and  he  ate  heartily  when  he  got  home." 

The  letter  to  which  Mrs.  Charlick  made  reference  was  as  follows:  "A  few 
days  ago  my  darling  baby  was  brought  to  you  by  my  devoted  mother,  Mrs. 
Charlick,  and  she  brought  baby  back  to  me  free  from  fever  and  greatly  changed 
for  the  better,  through  your  prayer,  and  is  perfectly  healed.  Neither  myself  nor 
my  husband  are  such  Christians  as  we  wish  to  be,  but,  oh,  do  pray  for  us  that 
we  may  become  such."    (Amens  from  the  audience. ) 

We  remarked  that  these  three  cases  illustrated  two  distinct  forms  of  Divine 
Healing:  The  first  two  without  our  seeing  the  children,  by  the  direct  power  of 
the  Lord;  and  in  the  last  by  the  laying  on  of  our  hands,  but  the  power  of  the 
Lord  being  identically  the  same. 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  Cataract  on  the  Eyes, 

On  December  the  7th  we  received  the  following  petition  for  prayer:  "I 
have  a  cataract  forming  on  my  eyes.  Please  offer  prayer  for  me  that  by  the 
power  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  it  may  be  removed."  We  did  not  know  who 
sent  this,  as  it  did  not  bear  any  name.  Fourteen  days  later  another  letter  was 
handed  to  us,  as  follows: — 

"Dear  Sir:  I  was  told  by  three  of  the  finest  oculists  in  this  city  that  I 
had  cataracts  on  both  eyes.  Since  attending  your  meetings  I  have  been  per- 
fectly cured.  I  can  see,  and  I  read  both  fine  and  large  print.  I  have  been  a 
Christian  for  many  years,  and  now  I  have  consecrated  my  life  afresh  to  Christ. 
I  felt  a  little  hesitancy  in  testifying,  as  I  wished  to  be  quite  sure  that  my  state- 
ment would  be  correct.  Mrs.  C.  M.  Smith." 

It  appears  from  what  we  were  told  by  this  sister  that  she  received  the 
healing  one  afternoon  amongst  some  thirty  or  forty  others  whom  we  prayed  for 
and  laid  hands  upon  at  the  same  time  in  a  ladies'  meeting.  We  then  asked  the 
lady  to  rise.  She  did  so,  and  confirmed  the  testimony  above  recorded,  saying 
that  she  lived  in  Springfield,  111.,  and  now  lives  in  Berkeley,  Cal.  Her  case  was 
corroborated  by  several  persons  present  who  knew  her,  and  the  healing  seemed 
to  be  a  very  perfect  one. 

Healing  of    wenty  Years'  Internal  Disease  and  Spinal 

Injury. 

The  following  letter  was  then  read: — 

"206  Kearny  St.,  San  Francisco,  ) 
December  23,  1S88.      / 

"Rev.  Mr.  Dowie — Dear  Brother  in  Christ:  I  here  testify  that  I  have  been 
healed  by  divine  power  of  an  internal  complicated  disease,  of  which  I  have  been 
a  great  sufferer  for  twenty  years.  I  was  confined  to  my  bed  for  three  years. 
But  my  physician  saw  I  would  die  if  I  longer  remained  in  bed,  and  he  procured 
for  me  a  very  complicate^  spinal  brace  and  support,  which  he  fitted  to  me. 
Through  that  instrumentality  I  was  able  to  get  up  from  my  bed  nine  years  ago, 
but  I  gained  strength  very  slowly,  and  have  never  been  able  to  do  without  it 
until  about  two  weeks  ago,  when,  after  listening  to  the  teaching  of  this  beautiful 
healing  doctrine,  I  was  healed  through  faith  in  Jesus,  the  great  Physician,  in- 
stantly. I  wish  to  express  my  gratitude  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie  for  their  efforts 
to  bring  me  the  knowledge  of  this  glorious  light.  May  God  bless  you  and  your 
work.  Sincerely  yours,  Mrs.  L.  A.  Wilcox.  " 

We  said :  "This  lady  at  a  meeting  of  ladies  told  us  her  case  in  detail,  and  how 
she  had  taken  off  the  spinal  brace,  without  which  she  could  not  move  a  single 
step  for  nine  years.     She  was  in  the  meeting  this  afternoon  at  the  Lord's  table 


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and  could  not  be  out  at  the  meeting  this  evening,  owing  to  family  arrangements, 
and  sent  this  written  testimony.  Will  her  friends  who  are  present  cori'oborate 
this  testimony  ?"     This  was  done  by  several  persons  present. 

Healing  of  Catarrh  of  Twenty-six  Years,    and  Imperfect 
Sight  of  Five  Years. 

We  said:  '*  It  will  be  good  now  to  take  an  illustration  of  how  the  Lord 
uses  the  testimony  of  those  who  hear  the  doctrine  and  go  into  other  parts  of  the 
country  telling  their  friends  and  neighbors  of  what  they  saw  and  what  the  Lord 
has  done.  From  Borden,  Fresno  County,  we  have  a  very  beautiful  letter  from 
Mrs.  C.  C.  Easton.  After  referring  to  some  other  matters,  she  says,  *We 
want  to  tell  you,  dear  sir,  that  since  my  return  to  Borden,  after  hearing  you  in 
Oakland  in  August,  my  faith  has  been  strengthened  in  many  ways  ;  I  have  great 
blessings  both  spiritually  and  physically.  I  thank  God  that  from  what  I  saw 
and  from  your  preaching  I  was  enabled  to  accept  this  blessed  truth  that  Jesus 
"was  a  present  healer. 

"  *  I  must  tell  you  of  my  dear  brother,  who  was  healed  by  divine  power  after 
hearing  me  tell  of  the  glorious  work  you  were  doing  by  the  power  of  Jesus.  He 
has  been  a  Christian  for  twenty-three  years.  He  has  suffered  from  catarrh  for 
twenty-six  years.  While  talking  -with  me  after  my  return  he  said,  "If  such 
I)lessings  are  for  others,  why  not  for  me  ?  "  There  and  then  he  prayed  that  Cod 
ior  Jesus'  sake  would  deliver  him  from  all  his  troubles.  Now  I  wish  to  say  that 
from  that  time  he  has  been  perfectly  healed.  He  has  had  no  trouble  with  his 
head.  He  had  used  spectacles  to  read  with  for  five  years.  He  discarded  them 
at  once,  and  now  reads  fine  print  by  lamp-light  for  two  or  three  hours  at  a 
time.' " 

Healing  of  a  Dying  Man. 

We  said:  "  A  few  days  ago  we  were  asked  to  pray  for  a  man  named  Delano, 
living  at  the  Montgomery  House,  613  Mission  St.,  San  Francisco.  He  had  been 
given  up  to  die  by  a  number  of  doctors.  Our  friend.  Dr.  Lane,  who  is  now  on 
the  platform,  visited  the  case,  with  others.  They  tell  me  he  was  given  up  by  six 
physicians.  This  afternoon  we  received  the  following  note  from  this  man: 
*  *  *  Praise  God  from  whom  all  blessings  flow, '  your  prayers  have  been  answered.  I 
want  to  say  the  tumor  is  going  away  very  fast.  I  can  raise  my  head  quite 
straight.  Pray  earnestly  that  I  may  be  perfected. '  Two  evenings  ago,  Thursday, 
February  7th,  this  man  testified  publicly  at  a  meeting  of  the  Divine  Healing  As- 
sociation, San  Francisco,  over  which  we  presided.  He  stated  that  he  was  entirely 
healed.  The  healing  of  this  man  was  witnessed  to  by  several  persons»ia  the  au- 
dience. "  ^ 

Healing  of  Nervous   Exhaustion,  Dyspepsia  and  Other 
Troubles  of  Twelve  Years'  Standing. 

Mrs.  C.  E.  Shilabeer,  of  Solano  County,  spoke  as  follows:  "I  want  to  testify 
to  the  glory  of  God  that  I  have  been  healed  through  faith  in  Jesus  and  your 
teaching,  of  nervous  exhaustion.  I  had  dyspepsia  for  about  twelve  years.  About 
sixteen  months  ago  I  took  dumb  ague,  which  left  me  a  perfect  wreck  in  mind  and 
body.  I  had  four  doctors.  Then  I  went  to  the  Springs  and  came  home  worse, 
My  husband  was  advised  to  take  me  East;  so  he  took  me  to  Boston.  I  tried  one 
of  those  Christian  Scientists,  and  I  do  think  with  you,  Bro.  Dowie,  it  is  the  devil's 
own  work.  I  know  I  would  have  been  better  oflf  if  I  had  never  went  near  that 
"woman.  I  came  back  no  better.  I  heard  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie  holding  these 
healing  meetings  in  the  Grand  Opera  House,  and  I  came  down  to  the  city  nervous 
and  aching  in  every  limb.  You  were  talking  that  afternoon,  among  other  things, 
of  the  necessity  of  giving  ourselves  up  entirely  and  trusting  in  Jesus.  I  said  I 
ahall  trust  Jesus  and  give  up  medicine,  and  I  did  so,  and  from  that  day  I  began 
to  get  better.  I  was  just  thinking  yesterday  how  strong  I  was  getting.  I  am 
quite  well  of  all  my  nervous  trouble.  I  thank  God  for  sending  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Dowie  among  us.  I  feel  they  will  be  the  means  of  bringing  great  blessings  to 
many,  and  bring  many  to  Christ.     May  God  bless  them  both. " 


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Healing  of  Rheumatism  of  Six  Years'  Standing. 

Mrs.  A.  Darby,  214^  Sixth  Street,  Sau  Francisco,  said:  "  I  wish  to  express 
my  thanks  to  God,  and  I  rejoice  that  it  was  His  will  to  send  Br.  Dowie  out  as 
His  agent  to  enlighten  us  and  to  help  us  to  understand  more  fully  the  power  and 
willingness  of  Jesus  to  heal  the  tliseases  of  the  body  now  at  this  time  as  when 
here  in  the  flesh.  Bless  His  holy  name.  For  six  years  I  suffered  from  rheuma- 
tism from  the  crown  of  my  head  to  the  soles  of  my  feet.  I  tried  almost  every- 
thing I  could  get,  with  only  temporary  relief.  All  the  time  I  was  asking  God  to 
bless  the  means  I  was  using,  but  for  the  last  two  years  some  of  our  best  physicians 
have  told  me  that  I  could  never  be  cured.  But  since  coming  to  your  meetings  and 
hearing  the  teaching  of  Jesus  through  you  so  beautifully  explained,  I  do  thank 
my  Heavenly  Father  for  the  blessings  received  both  spiritually  and  bodily.  My 
rheumatism  has  almost  entirely  disappeared,  and  I  believe  I  am  now  healed.  I 
have  taken  Christ  as  my  only  physician.  I  am  resting  in  Him.  Praise  the 
Lord,  I  feel  quite  well." 

Healing  of  Internal  Complaints  of  Many  Years'  Standing. 

Mrs.  Meyer,  407  O'Farrell  Street,  San  Francisco,  wrote  her  testimony,  which 
we  cannot  publish,  giving  glory  to  God  for  her  perfect  healing. 

Healing  of  a  Minister's  Wife  in  Ontario,  Canada- 

The  Rev.  J.  E.  Irvin,  Ontario,  Canada,  sent  a  telegram  to  us  asking  us  to 
pray  for  his  wife,  who  was  in  a  very  critical  condition,  on  December  the  1st.  On. 
that  date  he  writes  us  from  Niagara  Falls,  as  follows: — 

"My  Very  Dear  Brother:  I  believe  I  ought  now  to  write  you  this  morning, 
and  say  to  the  glory  of  God  that  answer  to  the  prayer  which  you  offered  has 
been  perfectly  given.  We  have  had  a  wonderful  victory  in  prayer.  It  is  now 
about  an  hour  ago;  we  have  expected  you  would  be  praying  about  that  time." 

We  would  add  that  the  brother  who  writes  this  letter  had  been  attending  our 
Mission  in  the  Grand  Opera  House  and  had  been  recalled  to  his  home  by  tele- 
graph, owing  to  the  dangerous  illness  of  his  wife.  Recently  we  received  from 
him  a  long  letter,  telling  us  that  he  had  been  greatly  encouraged  by  his  visit  here, 
and  helped  by  all  that  he  saw  and  heard.  He  sent  us  at  the  same  time  an  ex- 
cellent little  tract  which  he  had  written,  and  a  program  of  meetings  being  held  at 
his  house  attended  by  many  ministers  from  the  neighborhood,  in  which  he  taught 
the  doctrine  of  Divine  Healing,  and  gave  accounts  of  the  work  in  which 'we  have 
been  engaged. 

Healing  of  Twenty  Years'  Snflfering  from  a  Bone  Felon  on 
the  Right  Hand. 

Mrs.  Eawlinson,  1217  Lombard  Street,  testified  as  follows: — 
'*I  suffered  for  over  twenty  years  from  a  bone  felon  on  the  thumb  of  my 
right  hand.  I  applied  to  many  doctors  for  relief,  and  got  none.  All  told  me  I 
must  have  my  thumb  taken  off.  This  I  refused  to  have  done.  At  last  to  my  joy 
I  heard  Dr.  Dowie's  teaching  in  the  Grand  Opera  House,  and  through  faith  in 
Jesus  my  thumb  has  been  perfectly  healed." 

^ir.  Rawlinson,  husband  of  this  lady,  rose  and  confirmed  her  testimony. 

Healing  of  a  Young  Lady  Doctor. 

Dr.  Mary  D.  Fletcher,  of  Fresno,  returned  thanks  for  her  restoration  to 
health  through  faith  in  Jesus,  after  illness  from  what  might  have  been  a  serious 
fall.  We  said,  "She  is  Elder  Cadman's  sister,  and  he  will  perhaps  speak  for 
her." 

Mr.  Cadman  said:  "I  will  only  say,  dear  friends,  that  my  sister-in-law  had 
been  very  sick,  and  she  was  obliged  to  leave  Fresno  and  come  home  to  the  folks. 
When  she  came  home  my  father  told  her  about  this  teaching,  and  in  her  room 


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^lone  he  knelt  by  her  bedside  and  asked  God,  in  the  name  of  Jesus,  to  make  her 
strong.  She  is  a  Christian.  She  wanted  to  do  all  she  could  for  Christ.  She 
felt  that  she  could  not  while  she  was  weak.  She  got  the  blessing.  She  never 
saw  Mr.  Dowie.     The  blessing  came  alone  in  her  own  room." 

The  Restoration  of  Hearing  to  a  Deaf  Mute. 

A  few  weeks  ago  we  said  we  had  a  petition  to  this  effect:  **  Please  pray  to 
Jesus  to  heal  me.     I  am  a  deaf  mute.      -►.y**.  Kate  Bradley." 

This  young  lady,  at  her  ©wn  request,  testified  yesterday  afternoon  publicly, 
and  showed  all  who  were  present  that  she  could  hear.  Will  all  those  who  were 
present  who  heard  Katie  Bradley  repeat  the  words  after  me  that  I  spoke  into 
her  ear,  stand.  About  fifty  persons  in  the  building  rose.  It  was  a  very 
interesting  sight  to  see  this  dear  girl,  who  had  been  a  deaf  mute  from  her 
second  year  (now  apparently  about  nineteen),  repeat  the  words  that  were  spoken 
to  her.  She  sent  in  a  little  thanksgiving  note,  which  we  have  mislaid.  The  case 
is  not  perfected,  but  we  trust  will  be. 

Healing  of  a  Skin  Disease. 

Mrs.  Desmond,  of  No.  3  Golden  Gate  Avenue,  testified  to  the  healing  of  her 
little  son,  who  had  a  very  bad  rash  over  his  whole  body,  and  is  now  quite  well. 

Healing  of  Whooping-Congh. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edmonds,  451  Jessie  Street,  S.  F.,  returned  thanks  to  God  for 
having  healed  their  child  of  whooping-cough  in  direct  answers  to  our  prayers. 

Healing  of  Consumption,  Catarrh,  Diseased  Eyes,  and 
Sores  on  the  Face- 

Carl  Sparman,  of  Sutter  Street  near  San  Pablo  Avenue,  Gaakill  Tract,  Oak- 
land, a  lad  about  fourteen  years  old,  made  the  following  statement: — 

**  I  praise  the  Lord  that  He  has  healed  me.  First  of  all  he  healed  my  eyes, 
which  were  badly  diseased,  after  you  laid  hands  upon  them.  A  little  over  a 
month  ago  I  was  getting  pretty  sick.  I  coughed  and  spit  up  something,  and  my 
mother  came  in  in  the  morning  and  took  out  what  I  had  spit  up,  and  asked  me 
how  I  felt.  After  I  had  told  her  she  said,  *  My  boy,  you  have  consumption,  I 
fear; '  and  she  told  me  I  had  spit  up  some  of  my  lung.  She  said  that  Jesus  was 
the  only  one  that  would  heal  me,  and  now  it  would  be  either  life  or  death.  My 
papa  said  the  same.  We  went  over  to  see  you.  I  was  very  ill.  You  prayed 
for  me,  and  I  at  once  became  stronger.  The  next  day  I  came  over  again  with 
my  papa  to  see  you.  I  saw  you  before  the  meeting.  You  again  laid  hands  upon 
me  in  the  name  of  the  Lord,  and  I  was  healed  entirely.     I  am  well. 

**I  also  had  my  nose  all  stopped  up,  and  my  head  covered  with  big  sores,  and 
pimples  on  my  face.  I  looked  more  like  a  dead  person  than  one  alive.  I  had 
the  sores  over  three  months.  Inside  of  a  week  after  you  laid  hands  upon  me 
they  all  disappeared.  The  pain  in  my  side  went  away,  and  Jesus  healed  all  that. 
I  praise  the  Lord  for  all  that  He  has  done  for  me.  He  is  my  Saviour,  and  healed 
me  spirit,  soul,  and  body.  He  is  my  beloved  Saviour."  ("Praise  the  Lord," 
from  the  audience.) 

The  father  of  this  lad  stood  up  and  confirmed  the  testimony,  and  said:  "On 
the  4th  of  December  I  brought  to  Dr.  Dowie  my  other  little  son,  who  had  very  bad 
catarrh,  and  trouble  with  his  feet,  but  the  Lord  Jesus  healed  him." 

Healing  of  a  Severe  Cold  through  Mrs.  Dowie's  Agency. 

Mr.  Richard  Smith,  2515  Larkin  Street,  said:  "For  the  glory  of  God  I  give 
thanks  that  he  used  Sister  Dowie  as  an  agent  in  his  hands  for  the  complete  heal- 
ing of  a  severe  cold  which  I  had  for  several  weeks,  and  which  had  settled  in  my 


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right  lung,  causing  me  to  cough  and  spit  some  blood.  On  the  day  I  was  healed  I 
was  so  sick  that  I  kept  my  bed  nearly  half  the  day,  and  then  I  went  to  the  meet- 
ing at  the  Opera  House.  But  Dr.  Dowie  was  so  busy  he  could  not  see  me,  and  I 
saw  Mrs.  Dowie  and  asked  her  to  tell  her  husband  to  pray  for  me,  not  expecting 
ahe  would  administer  to  me.  But  to  my  surprise  and  joy  she  placed  her  finger  on 
my  breast  on  the  right  lung  and  said,  *  Pray  to  Jesus  that  the  pain  may  be  taken 
away  now.'  We  prayed,  and  that  night  I  felt  myself  perfectly  well,  and  have 
not  been  sick  since." 

This  hearty  looking  old  gentleman  confirmed  his  testimony  by  striking  several 
hard  blows  on  his  chest  with  his  fist.  We  said:  "  That  will  do;  you  look  healed. 
You  thump  yourself  pietty  well.  If  anybody  else  thumped  you  like  that  you 
might  cry  out. " 

Healing  of  Seven  Years'  Internal  Trouble. 

Mrs.  Hassler,  2650  Folsom  Street,  San  Francisco,  said:  "  Dear  friends,  for 
the  past  seven  years  I  have  been  afflicted  with  a  severe  chronic  trouble,  for  the 
cure  of  which  I  have  sought  the  best  physicians  in  the  State,  but  only  obtained 
temporary  relief.  Until  a  few  short  weeks  ago  I  felt  I  would  never  be  healed.  But 
thank  the  Lord  I  heard  of  Dr.  Dowie  and  the  work  already  accomplished  through 
him  in  this  State.  I  was  anxious  to  see  for  myself  and  attended  one  of  the 
meetings.  I  was  fully  convinced  by  his  beautiful  teaching  that  through  faith  in 
our  Lord  we  could  be  healed  through  prayer.  1  had  sought  for  relief  in  medicine, 
but  in  vain.  No  man  could  help  me.  I  asked  Dr.  Dowie  to  lay  hands  on  me  and 
pray  for  me,  and  since  he  did  I  have  felt  myself  better,  and  believe  I  am  well. " 

We  said:  "The  details  of  this  case  cannot  be  entered  into.  Like  hundreds 
of  other  cases,  it  comes  under  the  generic  term  of  diseases  of  women. 

"Another  of  those  cases,  and  perhaps  one  of  the  most  serious  we  have  seen  in 
the  Mission,  will  now  testify.  We  are  not  often  staggered,  but  when  Mrs.  Dowie 
informed  us  of  the  details  we  felt  just  for  a  moment  the  exceeding  gravity  of  the 
case,  but  we  had  faith  given  to  us  to  pray  for  her  liealing,  and  thanks  be  to  God 
she  was  perfectly  healed." 

Healing  of  Internal  Troubles. 

Mrs.  Delia  B.  Scarfe,  1320  Mission  Street,  said:  "Myself  and  husband  have 
attended  all  the  Missions,  and  have  received  the  teaching  and  accepted  Jesus  as 
our  healer.  On  the  30th  of  November  I  went  into  the  healmg-room  at  the  Central 
Presbyterian  Church.  Dr.  Dowie  prayed  with  me  and  laid  hands  upon  me,  and 
I  felt  the  blessing  come.  I  feel  now  I  must  give  up  all  human  doctors  and  trust 
to  Christ  for  perfect  keeping,  I  have  not  taken  or  used  anything  since  what- 
ever. I  praise  God  I  was  perfectly  healed  of  that  terrible  trouble,  a  healing 
which  could  not  possibly  be  eflfected  by  any  human  remedies.  1  amgetting  stronger 
and  stronger  all  the  time. " 

Healing  of  Many  Years'  Catarrh. 

Mrs.  Anna  B.  Anderson,  547  Minna  St.,  San  Francisco,  said:  "I  want  to  say 
to  the  glory  of  God  that  during  this  Mission  I  have  received  great  blessing.  I 
have  had  catarrh  in  my  head  for  many  years,  and  I  suffered  much  pain.  Dr. 
Dowie  prayed  for  me  and  I  felt  like  a  new  person,  and  I  am  going  to  trust  the 
Lord  for  keeping.     I  am  healed. " 

Healing  of  a  Little  Boy. 

Adolph  C.  Jacobs,  507  Leavenworth  St.,  San  Francisco,  said:  "On  December 
7th  I  was  attacked  with  a  severe  pain  in  both  my  temples  and  with  dizziness  in 
my  head.  My  mother  sent  me  on  an  errand,  thinking  the  fresh  air  might  do  me 
good.  I  had  to  rest  several  times  on  the  way  on  account  of  my  increasing  weak- 
ness, and  I  felt  very,  very  ill.  When  I  returned  home  I  laid  down,  and  my 
mother,  who  had  been  attending  your  meeting,   told  me  to  prey,  and  my  sister 


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went  and  asked  Mrs.  Dowie  to  pray  for  me  also.  Prayer  was  offered  for  me  by 
Dr.  Dowie  in  the  evening  at  the  evening  meeting,  and  just  about  8  o'clock,  when 
prayer  was  offered,  I  suddenly  felt  myself  as  well  as  ever,  and  I  am  quite  healed. 
I  give  God  all  the  glory." 

Healing  of  a  Young  Man  "Who  Suffered  from  an  Internal 
Complaint,  and  "Was  Injured  by  a  Heavy  Timber  Fall- 
ing on  His  Back;  and  Also  Healing  of  His  Sister 
in  Scotland. 

Kenneth  McDonald,  Golden  Eagle  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  said,  speaking  in  a 
broad  Scotch  accent:  **  About  the  third  week  of  Dr.  Dowie's  Mission  in  the 
Grand  Opera  House,  I  was  persuaded  by  Edwin  McDonald  (a  young  man  who 
was  saved  and  healed  in  the  same  Mission)  to  attend  the  meetings,  which  I  did, 
with  blessing  to  my  spirit,  soul  and  body.  I  received  Jesus  as  my  Saviour  and 
my  healer.     I  was  healed  of  an  internal  complaint  which  troubled  me. 

*'  I  asked  prayers  for  my  sister  in  Scotland,  Parish  of  Gairloch,  Ross-shire. 
She  was  perfectly  helpless  in  her  lower  limbs,  but  the  very  day  that  prayer  was 
offered  for  healing  for  her  in  this  city  by  Dr.  Dowie,  my  father  wrote  me,  and 
said  that,  contrary  to  all  expectation,  she  was  able  to  get  up  and  walk  about. 
[Praise  the  Lord  and  amens  from  the  audience.] 

"  The  first  week  of  this  Mission  I  was  hurt  by  a  timber  falling  across  my  back. 
I  went  to  one  of  the  meetings,  but,  as  Dr.  Dowie  was  pressed  by  the  people,  I 
thought  I  would  go  home  without  relating  my  accident  to  him.  But  my  friend, 
Edwin  McDonald,  would  have  me  wait  until  he  could  lay  hands  upon  me,  which 
he  did  just  as  he  was  going  out  of  the  door.  He  laid  hands  on  my  back  and  the 
pain  instantly  ceased,  and  all  the  trouble  of  that  accident  passed  away,  and  I  was 
able  to  go  to  hard  work  the  next  morning,  and  I  am  quite  well  now.  I  give  God  all. 
the  glory." 

Healing  of  Internal  Troubles  of  Many  Years'  Standing. 

Mrs.  Carrie  Strayer,  of  516  Van  Ness  Ave.,  said:  **I  have  been  suffering 
from  ill  health  for  a  number  of  years,  which  caused  great  nervous  prostration, 
the  principal  trouble  being  in  my  head.  Just  here  permit  me  to  relate  a  dream. 
I  pay  no  attention  to  dreams,  as  a  rule,  and  I  have  had  very  few  in  my  life.  But 
the  morning  previous  to  my  healing  I  had  been  attending  your  meeting  and  I  was 
strongly  impressed.  I  dreamed  I  saw  a  beautiful  bird,  white  in  color,  flitting 
about  me  in  the  mazes  of  dream-land,  and  ever  and  anon  it  would  return  and 
alight  on  the  left  side  of  my  head,  close  to  my  neck.  This  was  repeated  many 
times,  the  bird  always  returning  to  the  exact  place.  The  next  day,  December 
19th,  the  Holy  Ghost  descended  upon  my  poor  weak  head  and  body,  quickening 
my  spirit,  soul  and  body,  through  faith  in  Jesus.  Peace  has  come  to  me  that  I 
knew  not  of,  and  great  spiritual  revelation,  and  a  restoration  of  strength  in  my 
head,  which  has  not  left  me.  I  can  testify  to  the  positive  healing  power  of  the 
Holy  Spirit  in  the  meeting  from  the  very  first." 

Healing  of  Cancer  in  the  Tongue. 

Mrs.  King,  of  1265  Center  Street,  Oakland,  said:  "  I  have  had  cancer  in  the 
tongue  and  throat  for  several  years.  Under  Dr.  Dowie's  teaching  I  received 
Jesus  as  my  healer.  He  has  perfectly  healed  me,  and  keeps  me  whole  to-night. 
Praise  His  name.  I  give  Him  all  the  glory.  The  cancer  has  entirely  disappeared. 
Dr.  Dowie  laid  hands  upon  me  during  his  Mission  in  Oakland  in  the  First  i*res- 
byterian  Church,  last  August.  The  cancer  was  an  active  cancer.  I  could  not 
bite  a  piece  of  bread,  and  was  suffering  constant  pain.  I  have  had  many  doctors. 
I  will  name  three  who  recently  treated  me:  Dr.  Miller,  Dr.  Donnelly,  and  Dr. 
Darrin,  on  Powell  Street,  in  this  city.  They  gave  me  little  hope.  The  cancer 
became  very  active,  and  was  eating  away  my  tongue.  There  were  two  holes  in 
my  tongue,  but  they  are  entirely  gone,  and  I  am  perfectly  healed. 


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Healing  of  Internal  Cancer. 

Mrs.  Boillot,  1123  Greenwich  Street,  gave  a  very  interesting  account  of 
healing  of  internal  cancer  seven  years  ago  in  Switzerland.  We  gave  the  details 
of  this  case  in  our  report  of  the  testimony  meeting  in  the  Lyceum  on  November  7. 

Oakland  Cases  of  Healing. 

Some  reflection  having  been  cast  upon  the  genuineness  of  the  Oakland  cases, 
we  asked  all  those  who  happened  to  be  present  from  that  city  to  rise.  Over  ten 
did  so. 

Confirmation  of  Restoration  of  Sight  in  One  Eye  after 
Fourteen  and  One-half  Years'  Blindness. 

Miss  Annie  Burkman,  of  813  Peralta  Street,  who  had  been  blind  in  the  left 
eye  for  fourteen  and  one-half  years,  and  disease  in  her  other  eye,  again  testified 
that  both  of  her  eyes  were  entirely  healed  of  the  disease,  and  that  she  could  read 
quite  clearly  with  the  eye  that  had  been  blind  from  her  infancy.  "We  held  up 
our  watch  at  some  distance  from  her,  and  she  read  the  time  with  the  eye  which 
had  been  blind.  It  was  then  thirty-tive  minutes  past  nine  o'clock.  Our  w^atch 
was  held  about  three  feet  from  Miss  Burkman.  We  then  remarked  that  this 
was  the  case  concerning  which  an  Oakland  minister  publicly  said  that  she  was 
just  as  bad  as  ever.  This  young  lady  testified  shortly  after  her  healing  in  the 
Grand  Opera  House. 

Confirmation  of  Healing  of  Broken  Instep  of  Thirteen 
Years'  Standing. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Rodenbeck,  Foley  Street,  Alameda,  also  healed  in  the  Grand 
Opera  House,  testified  to  her  continued  healing.  She  had  come  in  on  crutches, 
and  walked  away  without  them.  When  we  asked  her  if  she  was  perfectly  healed, 
she  said,  "  Yes;  shall  I  show  you  ?  "  Without  waiting  for  an  answer  she  walked 
quickly  up  one  of  the  aisles  of  the  church,  and  the  audience  broke  out  into  an 
applause. 

She  also  testified  that  she  had  been  saved  and  spiritually  healed  in  the  Mis- 
sion. 

Healing  of  Heart  Disease  of  5  Years'  Standing,  and  Con- 
firmation of  Oakland  Cases  Generally  by  One  Who 
Knows  Them  AIL 

Mr.  John  Svenson,  761  Peralta  Street,  Oakland,  said:  **I  will  begin  with 
myself  first.  I  may  say  to  the  glory  of  the  Lord  that  I  have  been  much  blessed 
by  Brother  Dowie's  Missions.  I  have  been  attending  them  in  Oakland  and  in 
San  Francisco  both.  I  was  greatly  pleased  by  his  teaching,  and  at  last  I  was 
even  healed  of  heart  disease  that  I  have  sufiered  with  for  5  years.  I  don't  look 
much  as  if  I  had  been  sufiering  from  sickness,  as  you  all  can  see;  but  I  have  felt 
very  sick  sometimes  from  heart  trouble.  I  went  to  Brother  Dowie  and  told  him 
my  case,  and  he  laid  hands  upon  me  and  prayed  to  the  Lord,  and  the  Lord 
healed  me  instantly.  ["Praise  God''  from  the  audience.]  I  know  that  I  am  healed. 
1  know  the  Lord  has  done  it.  I  give  glory  to  His  name,  and  I  will  thank  God  as 
long  as  I  live  that  I  have  heard  the  blessed  gospel,  and  that  I  can  believe  in  the 
Saviour,  who  has  the  merits  to-day  that  he  ever  had;  that  He  will  not  only  save 
us  from  sin  and  death,  but  heal  our  bodies  from  all  infirmities.  We  can  trust 
the  Lord  in  everything.     He  has  made  us  and  can  and  will  heal  us  if  we  are  sick. 

"Now  concerning  the  cases  in  Oakland  who  have  been  healed,  I  know  them  all. 
I  know  they  are  all  true  Christians  so  far  as  I  can  see.  There  is  one  case  that  has 
never  given  testimony  in  any  of  these  meetings,  a  woman  who  has  been  healed 
wonderfully.  It  is  Mrs.  Soderstrand,  who  belongs  to  the  Swedish  Baptist  Church. 
It  was  about  six  weeks  ago,  when  the  Mission  was  being  held  in  the  Opera  House, 
a  friend  came  to  her  house  and  they  saw  she  was  very  sick,  and  she  was  expect- 
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ing  to  die.  I  and  my  wife  determined  we  would  take  a  petition  to  Brother 
Dowie.  So  a  petition  was  sent  and  she  was  prayed  for  in  the  Opera  House.  On 
the  following  Sabbath  morning  my  wife  went  over  to  see  her,  and  to  her  surprise 
found  she  was  up,  perfectly  healed  and  attending  to  her  duties.  Prayer  had  been 
instantly  answered.  You  can  yourself  imagine  who  did  that ;  it  was  the  Lord 
himself.  Mr.  Dowie  has  never  seen  that  lady."  (We  added  here  that  we  had  re- 
ceived her  testimony  in  writing,  and  had  read  it  at  the  Grand  Opera  House. ) 

Mr.  Svenson  continued  :  "  Well,  I  know  this  lady  perfectly,  and  that  she  is 
well.  I  know  all  these  Oakland  cases  concerning  whom  this  minister  in  Oakland 
has  wrongly  spoken.     They  are  healed. 

"  There  is  another  case  of  healing.  A  lady  brought  a  little  child  23  months 
old,  that  had  been  lame  from  the  time  it  was  ten  months  old,  and  when  Dr.  Dowie 
laid  hands  upon  her  it  was  able  to  walk.  Do  you  remember  that  ?  "  (Appealing  to 
ourself.)  '*  Yes,"  we  replied,  "the  child  was  paralyzed  for  about  12  months  and 
was  instantly  healed.  How  many  of  you  saw  that  little  child  walk?"  (About 
20  persons  in  the  audience  rose. ) 

Mr.  Svenson  continued:  *'  I  can  do  nothing  better  than  to  recommend  the 
Lord  who  made  us  all.  He  keeps  us  all.  Oh,  trust  Him  as  a  savior  from  sin, 
and  also  a  healer  in  sickness.     He  will  take  care  of  you,  spirit,  soul  and  body." 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  15  Years'  Spinal  Injury. 

Mrs.  Gerold,  823  Dolores  Street,  San  Francisco,  said:  "I  was  in  the  Va- 
lencia Street  car  one  day  when  I  met  a  lady  who  said  she  had  suffered  from  dys- 
pepsia for  twelve  years,  and  could  only  eat  a  few  things.  She  told  me  that  she  had 
gone  to  Dr.  Dowie,  who  had  laid  hands  upon  her  in  Jesus'  name,  and  that  she  was 
entirely  cured,  and  she  could  eat  what  she  wanted  at  any  time,  and  had  been  do- 
ing it,  and  she  knew  she  was  perfectly  cured.  She  told  me  that  if  I  would  have 
faith  I  could  be  cured.  I  have  been  a  member  of  the  British  Aid  Society,  and  I 
was  so  ill  that  I  could  not  go  any  more  to  the  meetings.  My  back  was  so  pain- 
ful it  was  not  possible  for  me  to  go.  I  came  here  on  Tuesday  night  last.  I  was 
very  much  bigoted.  There  was  a  woman  there  who  was  a  Koman  Catholic  in 
her  belief,  and  she  was  shaken  by  what  Dr.  Dowie  said,  and  she  at  once  gave  her- 
self to  Christ.  I  felt  a  great  deal  of  interest  in  her  spiritual  welfare,  and  was 
willing  to  do  everything  in  the  name  of  Jesus  that  I  could  for  the  welfare  of 
other  people.  I  came  here  again  Thursday  night  and  again  on  Friday  afternoon. 
Then  I  asked  the  Doctor  to  lay  his  hands  upon  me.  He  told  me  at  that  time  it 
was  so  late  he  would  not  be  able  to  do  it.  On  Friday  night  I  came,  and  told  the 
Doctor  before  everybody  that  I  felt  if  he  would  lay  his  hands  upon  my  back  it 
could  be  healed.  I  knelt  down  and  he  did  so,  and  I  was  instantly  and  perfectly 
healed.  My  physician  had  told  me  in  April  last  that  I  must  undergo  a  painful 
operation,  but  I  refused,  and  I  gave  up  taking  medicine  and  looked  to  God.  I 
always  felt  I  would  be  relieved  if  I  could  only  know  God's  way  ;  and  now  I  am 
healed.  My  husband,  who  is  present,  knows  that  since  Friday  I  have  been  an 
entirely  different  woman."  ((Jailing  her  husband  by  name  she  said  in  a  loud, 
shrill  voice,  **  Stand  up  ! "  The  audience  laughed  heartily  and  clapped  their 
hands.)  '*  Jesus  done  it  all.  I  was  told  at  dinner  it  was  all  very  fine,  this  be- 
lief in  Jesus,  but  that  if  my  children  were  taken  sick  I  would  have  to  send  for 
a  doctor.  I  have  two  beautiful  girls  and  a  boy,  and  if  they  were  taken  sick 
this  very  minute  I  would  not  send  for  my  old  physician.  I  would  go  to  Jesus.  I 
was  healed  the  moment  Dr.  Dowie  laid  his  hands  upon  me  and  told  me  to  look 
up  to  Jesus  and  leave  my  sin  and  weakness  right  there.     I  did  it,  and  I  am  free. " 

Mr.  Gerold,  the  husband  of  this  lady,  rose  and  in  a  very  impressive  voice 
said,  "Doctor,  I  can  only  state  that  all  my  wife  has  said  is  perfectly  true." 

A  lady  rose  voluntarily  in  the  audience  and  announced  that  she  was  the  one 
who  met  Mrs.  Gerold  in  the  car.  She  gave  her  name  as  Mrs  Martinet.  Said  she 
lived  on  Twenty -eighth  Street. 

We  added  that  the  Roman  Catholic  lady  who  had  been  referred  to  by  Mrs. 
Gerold,  had  found  the  Lord  as  her  Saviour,  and  she  rose  up  a  witness  to  the  fact. 
We  also  said  that  through  her  conversion  a  friend  of  hers  had  been  brought  to  the 
meetings,  and  she  had  found  Jesus  as  her  Saviour. 


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Confirmation  of  Our  First  Case  of  Divine  Healing  in 

America. 

Mn.  Brown,  late  of  Sacramento,'  who  was  healed  on  June  the  16th,  and 
whose  testimony  has  been  frequently  recorded,  gave  a  very  interesting  account  of 
her  instantaneous  healing.  She  said  in  closing:  "When  I  came  to  see  Dr.  Dowie 
I  came  on  a  crutch,  and  I  could  not  walk  without  it,  but  from  the  moment  he 
laid  his  hands  upon  me  to  this  time,  I  have  been  perfectly  healed.  Thanks  to 
the  Almighty,  and  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie.  I  will  be  69  years  old  Christmas 
morning,  and  I  never  felt  better  in  my  life." 

Healing  of  a  Presbyterian  Elder's  Wife  and  Family. 

Elder  Cadman,  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  East  Oakland,  said:  "  I  feel  very 
happy  and  glad."  (Mr.  Dowie  remarked,  "And  you  look  happy  too.")  *'  I  can 
testify  to  the  healing  power  of  Jesus.  I  don't  think  there  was  anyone  in  this 
city  more  prejudiced  against  this  teaching  than  I  was.  I  said  two  or  three  times 
to  friends  in  our  own  church,  and  also  to  my  father-in-law,  that  I  did  not  believe 
in  the  teaching;  that  the  days  of  miracles  were  past;  that  I  believed  we  should 
use  the  means  and  ask  God  to  bless  them.  I  believed  it,  and  I  did  so  honestly. 
My  father-in-law  had  been  attending  the  meetings  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Hall,  and 
he  urged  me  to  go  and  hear  Bro.  Dowie.  But  I  jput  him  off,  until,  just  to  please 
him,  I  went,  and  it  was  the  last  night.  It  was  just  such  a  testimony  meeting  as 
we  have  here  to-night,  and  from  the  testimonies  there  by  the  brothers  and  sisters 
who  had  been  healed  I  dimly  saw  the  truth  of  it.  When  Bro.  Dowie  went  to 
Oakland  1  attended  all  through  that  Mission,  and  before  I  had  attended  many 
meetings  I  was  a  thorough  believer  in  the  doctrine  of  Divine  Healing.  So  I  went 
home  and  told  my  wife  about  it.  There  are  many  members  of  this  church  who 
know  that  my  wife  has  been  sick  for  a  great  many  years.  She  felt,  and  so  did  I, 
that  it  was  God's  will  that  she  should  be  so,  and  she  bore  it  in  that  way; 
she  just  felt  that  it  was  an  aflfliction  that  God  had  sent,  and  we 
must  bear  up  under  it  and  submit  to  it.  We  talked  the  matter  over,  and 
I  showed  her  that  sickness  was  not  of  God,  bijt  it  comes  from  the  devil;  that 
Jesus  came  to  destroy  the  works  of  the  devil.  She  saw  the  teaching  and  the 
truth  of  it  in  a  moment.  She  had  never  seen  Mr.  Dowie.  I  kneeled  by  her 
bedside  on  Friday  night,  and  I  put  my  hands  on  the  back  of  her  head,  and  asked 
God  for  Christ's  sake  to  give  my  wife  health  and  to  strengthen  her.  She  was 
troubled  with  extreme  weakness  in  her  back,  and  she  just  trembled  like  a  leaf 
all  over,  and  she  said,  *  Something  has  come  over  me. '  I  knew  from  the  very  ex- 
pression on  her  face,  and  her  look,  that  the  healing  had  come,  and  I  said,  *  Nell, 
the  Lord  has  healed  you, '  and  she  looked  up  with  an  expression  on  her  face  I 
shall  never  forget.  And  there  we  praised  and  thanked  God.  Just  to  show  you 
the  results,  we  had  three  little  children;  our  youngest  is  a  little  baby  only  thir- 
teen months  old,  and  sleeps  in  a  little  crib  alongside  of  its  mother.  In  the  night 
the  little  one  would  wake  up,  and  I  would  have  to  get  up  and  lift  it  out  of  the 
crib  and  take  it  to  her,  as  she  was  not  able  to  lift  it.  After  she  was  healed  she 
would  lay  on  her  side  and  reach  out  to  that  crib  and  take  up  the  baby,  which 
weighed  twenty -five  pounds,  and  bring  it  right  to  herself  ;  and  it  requires  a  good 
deal  of  strength  in  the  back  to  lift  that  weight  in  that  way,  out  at  arm's  length. : 
My  wife  has  been  able  to  do  it  right  along,  but  never  able  to  do  it  before.  \j*  ^ 

"  We  have  closed  the  medicine-box  in  our  house.  I  had  a  box  of  medicines 
that  cost  us  over  $25 — homeopathic  medicines;  we  were  doing  all  our  own  doc-j 
toring.  We  said,  « Now  we  will  take  the  Lord  for  the  children.'  We  had  tests 
of  our  faith.  One  of  our  little  children  waked  up  in  the  night  with  croup.  Dr. 
Fletcher  was  in  the  house,  and  she  got  up  and  came  into  the  room,  and  wanted 
to  give  the  little  one  medicine  to  relieve  it,  but  I  said,  'We  won't  do  it;  we  will 
trust  Jesus.*  We  knelt  by  the  bedside,  and  I  put  my  hand  upon  the  child's 
throat  and  prayed.  The  little  one  went  to  sleep  under  the  touch  of  my  hand, 
and  we  just  left  it  alone,  and  in  the  morning  the  child  was  all  right.  Just  as 
simple  as  that.     I  tell  you,  dear  friends,  it  is  a  reality.     ["Amen,"  from  the 


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audience.]  Do  not  trust  to  a  physician,  but  leave  it  with  Jesus,  and  He  will 
honor  your  faith,  and  the  healing  will  come. 

"Brother  Dowie  said  it  required  faith  to  testify  for  Jesus  here.  Well,  dear 
friends,  it  does.  But  it  does  not  now  to  me,  because  God  has  made  my  religion 
a  reality.  Before  I  used  to  worship  God  afar  off.  I  was  a  church-member,  but 
I  never  before  realized  Jesus  as  a  present  Saviour. 

"  I  went  to  visit  my  father-in-law  in  Alameda  just  a  little  while  ago,  and 
as  I  was  coming  home,  waiting  for  the  train,  I  saw  the  Salvation  Army  at  the 
Park  Street  Station,  and  I  knew  one  of  the  members.  There  were  two  ladies 
and  two  gentlemen.  Quite  a  large  crowd  had  gathered  around  them.  I  stepped 
up  to  the  Captain  and  I  said  to  him,  '  It  requires  a  good  deal  of  courage  for  those 
women  to  stand  up  there  and  testify.'  He  said,  'Indeed  it  does.  It  is  not 
money  that  brings  us  here,  but  just  the  love  of  God  and  the  salvation  of  souls. ' 
Before  I  knew  it,  he  said,  'Don't  you  want  to  say  a  word  for  Jesus?  '  I  never 
thought  that  he  was  going  to  ask  me  to  speak  for  Jesus  in  the  street;  and  there 
were  people  who  knew  me  there,  too.  I  did  not  answer  him  for  a  few  minutes. 
I  just  said,  *God  help  me.'  I  said,  'Yes,  I  will.'  After  the  sister  had  got 
through  I  stood  out  there  and  gave  a  little  testimony  for  Jesus.  If  anybody  had 
told  me  a  year  ago  that  I  would  testify  on  the  street  with  the  Salvation  Army, 
I  would  have  thought  I  was  going  to  be  insane.  My  religion  was  just  so  deep. 
You  want  to  bring  your  religion  out  into  activity,  and  let  people  see  that  yoa 
are  a  Christian,  and  that  you  are  working  for  Jesus." 

Four  Important  Questions. 

We  said:  "We  have  been  teaching  here  for  a  whole  month,  and  now  desire 
to  ask,  first,  Is  there  one  single  person  in  this  building  who  doubts  the  bona  fide 
nature  and  absolute  truthfulness  of  these  testimonies  that  have  been  given 
to-night?"  tMany  persons  exclaimed,  "No.")  "If  there  is  a  single  person, 
will  that  person  hold  up  his  or  her  hand."  After  looking  ovor  the  whole  audience, 
we  said,  "  There  is  not  one." 

Secondly,  will  all  who  believe  that  the  doctrine  that  we  have  been  preach- 
ing for  six  months  in  this  city  is  true — that  is,  all  who  believe  that  Jesus  is  a 
preseat  healer — stand  to  their  feet."  Nearly  the  whole  of  the  large  congregation 
was  immediately  standing.  (Mr.  Dowie  said,  "Hallelujah;  that  is  glorious! " 
"  Thank  God  and  Amens  "  from  the  audience. ) 

Thirdly,  will  anyone  who  believes  to  the  contrary,  that  Jesus  is  not  the 
healer,  stand? 

After  looking  all  over  the  building  and  at  the  large  audience  filling  it,  Ve  ex- 
claimed, "There  is  not  one.     Hallelujah,  the  Lord  has  a  victory." 

Fourthly,  will  all  here  who  have  been  healed  through  faith  in  Jesus  just 
stand  to  their  feet,  and  we  shall  try  to  count  them." 

A  great  many  did  so  and  we,  with  the  assistance  of  Dr.  Lane  and  Elder  Cad- 
man,  counted,  and  found  there  were  over  two  hundred  persons  on  their  feet. 
With  great  fervor  we  exclaimed,  "  Thank  God  for  that !  " 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  Sixteen  Years'  Internal  Injuries 
without  Human  Touch. 

Mrs.  Gerans,  405  Turk  Street,  said:  "Sixteen  years  ago  I  was  walking 
through  the  street  of  St.  Joe,  Missouri,  coming  from  Sunday-school,  and  the  Catho- 
lic Christian  Brothers  were  playing  base-ball,  so-called."  (Mr.  Dowie  suggested  in 
a  little  interruption  that  "unchristian  "  had  better  be  put  before  the  "  brothers.") 
"  I  was  struck  by  a  ball  in  the  stomach,  and  I  suffered  intense  pain.  I  went  to 
Boston,  to  Lakeport,  New  York,  and  a  great  many  places.  My  father  took  me  to 
different  places,  thinking  that  I  could  be  cured.  The  last  doctor  I  saw  was  Dr. 
Green,  who  lives  on  the  corner  of  Turk  and  Taylor  Streets,  but  he  did  not  give 
me  much  encouragement.     He  thought  he  might  'patch  me  up,'  as  he  called  it. 

"I  heard  about  Brother  Dowie,  but  I  was  afraid  he  was  a  Spiritualist.  I  was 
told  not  to  go  near  him;  that  I  would  have  to  comply  with  all  his  doctrine  and 
believe  in  his  work.     So  I  kept  away  from  him.     I  was  sick  for  a  whole  month 


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and  was  not  able  to  do  anjrthing,  and  I  came  to  the  meeting,  and  the  first  time  I 
saw  him  and  heard  him  apeak  I  felt  that  was  the  true  way  to  get  healed;  I  knew 
there  was  no  other  source  in  the  world  for  me  to  get  healed.  I  finally  gave  up 
medicine  and  thought  I  might  just  as  well  die  one  way  as  another.  I  was  very 
sick.  On  Friday  afternoon,  the  30th  of  November,  I  was  sitting  in  the  pew  here 
and  I  became  so  sick  I  thought  I  could  not  possibly  stay  until  the  meeting  was 
out.  Brother  Dowie  said  he  was  weary  and  he  would  let  Mrs.  Dowie  speak  for  a 
while,  and  he  sat  down. 

"I  could  not  get  hold  of  Jesus  for  myself;  I  was  too  bad  a  sinner,  I  thought;  I 
was  afraid  the  Lord  would  not  hear  me.  I  had  prayed  often  to  be  healed,  but 
I  could  not  touch  the  hem  of  His  garment.  But  I  began  with  all  the  power  of 
strength  I  had  to  pray  that  the  Lord  would  help  Brother  Dowie  that  he  could 
carry  on  this  Mission.  Sister  Dowie  was  talking,  and  suddenly  I  went  to  sleep 
right  in  the  pew.  I  never  went  to  sleep  in  church  before  in  my  life.  I  don't 
•know  how  long  I  slept,  probably  three  minutes.  I  then  straightened  up  (for  I 
could  not  straighten  up  when  I  had  those  attacks  before)  and  the  pain  was  en- 
tirely gone.  I  was  very  much  astonished.  I  was  afraid  to  move  for  tear  it  might 
return.  But  the  pain  ceased,  the  sickness  in  my  stomach  was  all  gone,  and  I  felt 
as  fresh  as  if  I  had  slept  a  week.     I  just  felt  like  this: 

"Now  Jesus  Christ  has  power  on  earth  to  forgive  sins,  and  I  want  a  wonder- 
ful blessing  in  my  spirit.  I  felt  that  I  had  not  the  grace  of  God  in  my  heart;  that 
I  had  lived  such  a  life  that  the  Lord  Jesus  would  not  take  possession  of  my  heart. 
I  would  say  the  Lord  has  made  me  sick,  and  grumble  at  the  Lord,  and  the  blessing 
would  fly  away.  I  now  feel  that  I  have  the  indwelling  power.  I  had  felt  so  un- 
worthy that  I  thought  the  Lord  would  not  even  use  Brother  Dowie  for  me.  I 
-went  to  see  the  Doctor  twice,  but  he  was  so  busy  he  could  not  see  me.  I  am 
perfectly  healed.     I  have  had  no  sick  spells,  and  I  can  eat  everything  I  wish." 

**  I  then  asked:  'And  you  had  other  troubles  besides  of  a  serious  nature  ? '  " 

"Yes,  sir." 

'*  You  could  only  eat  a  few  things  ?  " 

'*  A  few  things." 

**  Now  this  difficulty  has  all  gone?  " 

"Yes,  sir;  on  the  30th  of  November." 

"And  you  are  perfectly  healed ? " 

"Yes,  sir." 

*  *  What  can  you  eat  ?    Can  you  eat  pickles  ?  " 

**  I  can  eat  pickles. " 

**  Have  you  eaten  pickles?  " 

"Ihave." 

"  Can  you  eat  everything  ?  *' 

"I  can  eat  corn  beef  and  cabbage." 

"  That  will  do,  I  think.  I  wanted  a  practical  demonstration.  Thank  God. 
I  know  a  good  many  details,  not  only  of  the  serious  injury  caused  by  the  base- 
ball— and  it  was  a  hose  ball — but  there  were  other  troubles  of  a  very  serious 
character,  and  all  were  instantly  and  perfectly  healed.  You  were  sitting  beside 
Brother  Baker." 

Mr.  Baker  said  he  noticed  her  coming  in,  and  evidently  in  great  agony,  from 
the  appearance  of  her  face,  and  he  called  the  attention  of  some  ladies  to  her  at 
the  time. 

Address  by  Rev-  Dr.  C-  F.  Lane,  the  Local  Vice-President. 

"  Bro.  Dowie  has  said  that  he  has  a  new  title,  and  we  are  glad  he  has.  He 
is  the  President  of  the  American  Divine  Healing  Association;  and  this  is  a  new 
name  for  me  to  be  called.  1  am  not  ashamed  of  it,  not  ashamed  to  be  identified 
with  the  American  Divine  Healing  Association.  I  esteem  it  a  great  privilege, 
and,  as  I  have  said  before,  I  have  not  words  in  the  English  vocabulary  to  express 
my  gratitude  to  God  and  to  Bro.  Dowie  for  coming  to  America  and  to  Sacra- 
.mento,  to  this  part  of  the  world,  bringing  this  beautiful  gospel  of  Divine  Healing. 

"  I  was  a  poor,  weak,  sickly  old  man  when  Bro.  Dowie  came  to  Sacramento. 
I  could  scarcely  walk  a  mile— about  half  a  mile;  was  sickly  and  feeble.     I  had 


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heart-disease.  My  food  would  not  digest,  even  with  all  the  medicine  I  was 
taking.  From  my  brethren  in  the  profession  I  sought  counsel,  and  all  they  could 
give  me,  and  all  I  could  think  of,  seemed  to  do  no  good.  As  I  said  before  in 
my  testimony,  I  went  to  Sacramento  to  listen  to  Bro.  Dowie's  teaching.  When 
^he  repeated  the  Lord's  prayer,  *  Thy  will  be  done,'  in  speaking  of  God's  will  being 
done  in  Heaven  and  on  earth  and  in  us,  I  realized  the  beauty  in  that  thought; 
that  as  there  is  no  sin  and  sickness  in  Heaven,  it  is  not  God's  will  it  shall  be  in 
me;  that  I  might  be  healed  and  upheld,  and  have  no  sin  and  sickness.  That 
was  the  thought,  Bro.  Dowie,  that  first  entered  into  my  heart.  I  always  thought 
it  was  Father's  will  that  I  should  be  sick,  and  also  my  daughter.  We  fre- 
quently talked  about  it.  And  so  we  bore  the  sickness,  and  asked  Father  to  help 
us  bear  it  patiently. 

"Well,  we  just  went  along,  went  along,  praying  and  grieving  and  fretting, 
until  I  began  to  see  it  was  not  my  Father's  will  that  I  should  suffer  sickness,  and 
it  was  this  blessed  teaching  of  Bro.  Dowie  that  enabled  me  to  realize  this:  It  was 
Father's  will  that  I  should  be  well  and  healthy,  and  have  a  strong  body.  So  I 
just  gave  myself  wholly  to  Him.  I  abandoned  all  medicine;  but  I  am  ashamed 
to  say  that  I  was  not  thoroughly  confirmed  in  the  teaching  at  first,  and  when  I 
went  back  from  Sacramento  I  just  stumbled  over  a  pill  again.  I  had  just  got 
my  eyes  opened,  but  some  way  I  thought  I  would  just  try  another  pill.  But  I 
felt  so  ashamed  after  I  had  done  it  that  I  would  almost  have  given  anything  if  I 
had  never  taken  it.  I  was  so  ashamed  and  nervous  I  tipped  over  a  chair,  and  I 
said  the  others  will  hear  it  and  will  know  I  have  been  taking  medicine  again. 
I  have  not  taken  a  pill  since,  and  never  intend  to  take  another  one.  I  have  just 
quit  it  altogether.  I  now  believe  I  could  walk  six  miles  an  hour,  and  I  feel 
vigorous  and  strong,  and,  after  toiling  in  these  meetings  for  four  weeks,  listening 
to  the  sharp,  clear  voice  of  Bro.  Dowie  close  to  me,  my  head  feels  just  as  light 
and  beautiful,  and  I  sleep  sweetly  all  night.  Before  I  used  to  be  rolling  in  the 
bed,  distress  in  my  stomach  and  burning  and  trouble  in  my  head.  Glory  be  to 
God,  I  am  growing  stronger  all  the  time,  and  Jesus  keeps  me  every  moment.  And 
now  I  am  here,  the  local  President  of  the  Divine  Healing  Association  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

*•  I  am  getting  better  in  regard  to  my  memory.  It  was  so  I  could  not  con- 
nect my  thoughts,  but  I  am  getting  better  in  this  respect  all  the  time.  I  could 
not  before  get  up  in  an  audience  and  talk  two  minutes  connectedly  at  a  time,  but 
my  head  is  getting  so  much  better  that  I  am  beginning  to  be  able  to  quote 
Scripture. 

"I  am  getting  nearer  to  God  all  the  time.  And  the  best  of  all  I  believe 
Brother  Dowie  promises  to  pray  for  me;  I  believe  he  was  praying  last  night;  I 
believe  you  are  all  praying. 

"Friends,  we  are  going  to  have  a  blessed  time,  and  God's  people  are  going  to 
keep  on  getting  healed;  and  we  are  going  to  get  Brother  Dowie  back  here  again. 
[Great  applause.]  We  have  just  got  the  thing  so  beautifully  arranged  that 
Brother  Dowie  can't  get  away  from  us  yet.  We  are  going  to  pray  for  him,  and  he 
is  going  to  pray  for  us;  and  when  we  have  some  pretty  hard  cases  to  heal  we  are 
going  to  write  to  the  Doctor  to  help  us  out. " 

We  then  said:  "Beloved  friends,  I  feel  if  we  were  to  keep  you  longer  it 
would  not  be  right.  You  have  shown  great  patience,  and  although  there  are  a 
large  number  here  who  have  been  healed  and  blessed  who  have  not  testified,  and 
still  desire  to  do  so,  it  will  be  better  now  to  close  the  meeting." 

At  this  point  we  were  interrupted  by  a  fine-looking,  intelligent,  elderly 
woman,  who  rose  from  a  front  seat  in  the  audience,  and  addressed  me  thus: 
"  This  is  the  first  time  I  have  had  the  privilege  of  listening  to  you,  and  I  believe 
all  that  I  have  heard.  Now  I  ask  a  great  favor,  if  there  is  time,  and  that  is  that 
you  will  ask  this  kind  audience  to  pray  with  you  to  God  for  a  young  lady  who  is 
deaf.     She  sits  right  here. " 

We  instantly    complied  with   the   request,   and  a  large  number  kneU 
prayed  as  follows: —  , 


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Prayer. 

"We  ask  Thee,  dear  Lord,  to  bless  all  who  have  testified  by  speech  or  letter, 
or  by  silent  witness.  Enable  them,  dear  Lord,  to  rest  in  Thee  wholly  for  the 
keeping  power.     May  they  be  kept  by  Thy  power  through  faith  unto  salvation. 

•'And  now  we  pray  for  this  young  lady  who  is  present,  and  suffering  from 
deafness,  who  asks  to  be  restored  to  hearing.  We  trust  she  has  faith  to  believe 
that  she  will  be  restored  now.  Many  have  been  restored  who  have  already  testi- 
fied, without  any  human  touch;  oh  !  grant  unto  her  faith  to  rest  in  Thee  now. 

"And  we  pray  for  all  those,  dear  Lord,  that  are  sick  ;  for  those  who  have  been 
doubting  Thy  divinity.  Oh!  help  them  ;  help  the  unsaved  to  find  in  Thee  their 
Saviour  and  their  Healer;  help  us  all  to  find  in  Thee  our  all. 

•'Now  let  us  go  forward  in  Thy  strength.  Thou  kno west,  Lord,  we  claim 
to  have  done  nothing,  we  have  only  been  Thine  agents,  the  power  is  Thine  ;  let 
all  the  glory  be  Thine. 

••  And  now.  Lord,  this  Mission  does  not  close;  the  work  will  go  on,  and  on, 
and  on,  and  on.  ["Amens  "  by  the  audience.]  Let  every  church  in  this  city 
get  the  doctrine.  ["Amens."]  Oh!  that  the  ministers  might  preach  it,  so  that 
thousands  and  tens  of  thousands,  instead  of  hundreds  only,  might  be  healed  to  the 
glory  of  God.       ["Amens."]    Oh!  may  Thy  ministers  know  with  us  that 

'  Thy  touch  has  still  its  ancient  power; 
No  word  from  Thee  can  fruitless  fall. 
Oh!  hear  us  in  this  solemn  hour, 
And  in  Thy  mercy  bless  us  all.' 

"  Thy  word  can  heal  us  all.  Oh!  grant  that  everyone  within  these  walls 
may  be  divinely  blessed  this  night.      We  ask  it  in  Jesus' name.     Amen," 

The  audience  then  rose  and  sung  the  doxology  with  great  fervor,  and  after 
the  benediction  was  pronounced  the  meeting  closed. 

As  our  readers  know,  we  had  a  very  beautiful  gathering  of  the  friends  of  the 
Association  on  Christmas  evening,  two  days  after  the  above  meeting,  and  after 
preaching  in  the  First  Baptist  Church  the  following  Lord's  day,  December  30th, 
we  proceeded  on  the  afternoon  of  Monday,  the  31st,  to  San  Jose,  where  we  opened 
our  second  Mission.  We  continued  there  until  the  evening  of  Monday,  January 
14th,  having  had  a  most  successful  Mission,  the  report  of  which  will  follow  in  due 
course.  But  what  we  have  given  in  this  letter  will  be  more  than  sufficient  for 
one  month.  We  will  therefore  hold  over  the  report  of  the  San  Jose  Mission  un- 
til next  mail. 

We  left  San  Jose  on  Tuesday,  16th  of  January,  and  opened  our  Mission  in 
Hamilton  Church,  Oakland,  Monday,  January  21st,  continuing  daily  until  Mon- 
day last,  February  4th.  We  resume  the  Mission  in  the  same  place  on  Monday, 
February  the  11th,  closing  on  Monday,  February  18th.  Reports  of  these  meet- 
ings will  also  be  given. 

Report  of  a  Praise  and  Testimony  Meeting  Held  at  tlie  Cen- 

tella  Metliodist  Episcopal  Church,  San  Jose,  January 

14,  1889,  by  Rev.  John  Alexander  Dowie  and 

His  "Wife  af  cer  a  Two  Weeks'  Mission,  the 

Second  Held  in  That  Place- 

[Reported  by  G.  H.  Hawes,  320  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal.] 
The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  the  hymn — 

"My  hope  Is  built  on  nothing  less 
Than  Jesus'  blood  and  righteousness." 

After  prayer  and  the  reading  of  many  requests  by  Mr.  Dowie,  Mrs,  Dowie  read 
from  the  35th  chapter  of  Isaiah:  "Tne  wilderness  and  the  solitary  place  shall  be 
glad  for  them,  and  the  desert  shall  rejoice  and  blossom  as  the  rose,     etc. 

Announcements  were  then  made  in  connection  with  the  newly  formed  Branch 
of  thQ  American  Divine  Healing  Association.  Mr.  Dowie  then  delivered  an  in- 
troductory address,  in  the  course  of  which  he  said:  "We  desire  to  thank  pub- 
licly our  beloved  brother.  Pastor  Gale  and  his  officers,  and  the  members  of  this 
church,  for  so  kindly  placing  this  building  at  our  disposal. 


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•*\Ve  also  desire  to  thank  the  Rev.  T.  H.  Lawson,  and  the  officers  of  Wes- 
leyan  Methodist  Church,  who  placed  their  church  at  our  disposal  for  the  first 
week  of  the  Mission. 

"And  we  wish  to  say  that  while  we  cannot  continue  longer  here  at  present, 
we  are  tliankful  for  the  invitation  extended  to  us  to  stay  longer  in  your  city. 

**  There  are  forty -one  persons  sitting  around  me  who  desire  to  publicly  testify 
to  their  having  received  healing  through  faith  in  Jesus;  and  I  wish  to  say  a  few 
words  in  introducing  these  witnesses  for  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  First  of  all, 
there  are  many  of  them  whom  I  scarcely  know  except  by  sight,  and  some  to 
whom  I  have  scarcely  spoken,  excepting  a  very  few  words.  In  some  cases  they 
have  been  healed  directly  without  any  human  touch.  I  give  (xod  all  the  glory 
when  they  are  healed  through  my  agency,  but  I  am  just  as  well  pleased,  and  bet- 
ter in  some  respects,  when  they  are  healed  without  any  human  touch.  Let  God 
have  all  the  glory. 

*  'And  now,  beloved  friends,  it  may  be  well  first  of  all  to  introduce  to  you  to- 
night 

Some  Who  Were  Healed  in  Our  Last  Mission, 

And  for  this  reason,  that  if  I  were  to  introduce  first  some  that  were  healed  to- 
day or  yesterday  or  last  week,  some  of  you  who  are  inclined  to  be  hypercritical 
might  say,  *  These  healings  have  not  been  tested;  they  may  not  be  healed.' 
Well  now,  beloved  friends,  you  can  only  take  their  own  testimony  at  any  time, 
and  you  can  never  be  a  competent  judge  as  to  whether  they  are  healed  or  not,  be- 
cause you  have  never  experienced  their  pains;  you  cannot  see  out  of  their  eyes  or 
feel  with  their  senses;  and  therefore  you  have  to  rely  upon  your  belief  in  their 
truthfulness,  and  their  testimony  must  come  to  you  upon  their  own  word;  and 
although  there  may  be  corroborative  appearances,  yet,  after  all,  it  is  not  upon 
the  appearances  that  you  can  base  the  credibility  of  their  testimony;  they  must 
be  competent  witnesses,  and  yet  appearances  go  for  something.  Therefore  to- 
night I  think  it  is  well  to  introduce  first  soma  of  those  who  testified  at  the  Tes- 
timony Meeting  held  in  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Dr.  Jewell's 
church,  last  August.  The  first  one  I  will  ask  to  testify  is  our  bsloved  Brother 
LatliAvesen.  You  will  re.nember  that  in  that  Mission  he  testified  to  his  perfect 
healing.  Dr.  Bishop,  who  is  still  in  sympathy  with  us,  and  who  assures  me  he 
would  have  attended  the  meetings  more  had  it  been  possible,  testified  that  Brother 
Lathwesen  was  incurable,  and  ail  who  knew  of  the  case  knew  the  same  thing. 
The  Rev.  Dr.  Jewell  told  you  the  same  thing,  and  he  was  the  one  who  first  called 
my  attention  to  the  case.  He  said:  *I  have  a  man,  a  member  of  my  church,  a 
beloved  brother,  who  is  down  there  at  Pacific  Grove  djdng,  and,  doctor,  I  do  wish 
you  could  see  him;  I  am  afraid  he  is  too  far  gone  to  be  brought  up.'  Then  Mrs. 
Lathwesen  brought  up  a  petitioi  from  Pacific  Grove  for  prayer  for  him,  and  in  that 
petition  he  wrote  that  he  was  daily  expectiug  to  be  taken  to  Heaven,  he  was  so  ill 
and  so  sick.  I  said,  *  Well,  we  will  pray;'  and  I  prayed  and  she  prayed  and  we 
all  prayed,  but  he  did  not  get  any  better.  Then  she  said  to  her  friends,  *  I  tell 
you  I  will  have  to  go  down  there  and  bring  him  up.'  And  down  she  went  to 
Pacific  Grove  and  she  brought  him  up,  and  the  first  day  he  came  into  the  meet- 
ing and  heard  the  word,  he  was  prepared  by  the  Holy  Ghost  for  the  blessing.  He 
was  on  that  very  same  day  healed  instantly  and  perfectly  of  heart  disease,  I  think 
of  thirty  years'  standing,  of  spinal  disease,  and  of  a  very  serious  cancerous  tumor 
— everything  disappeared.  He  was  healed  August  20th,  last  year,  and  here  he  is 
to-night  to  tell  us  that  he  has  remained  perfectly  well,  and  has  been  able  to  do 
his  work  every  day.  He  will  tell  you  how  many  pounds  heavier  he  is.  The 
Lord  bless  him.     Now,  dear  Brother  Lathwesen." 

Confirmation  by  Mr-  Ch.  Lathwesen  of  Healing  of  Spinal 
and  Heart  Disease  and  Cancerous  Tumor. 

Mr.  Lathwesen,  of  343  South  Ninth  Street,  San  Jose,  stepped  easily  up  the 
step?  of  the  platform,  and  said:  "My  dear  friends,  I  praise  God  with  all  my 
heart,  that  God,  ever  so  merciful,  He  come  down  in  such  a  great  love  after  me, 
unworthy  creature,  and  pick  me  up  in  mine  great  agony,  in  mine  great  sicknesses, 


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in  mine  great— what  shall  I  say — Oh!  it  is  too  much  as  I  think  about  it.  He 
relieve  me  of  such  a  condition  as  I  was  in  for  thirty  years.  Many,  many  times  I 
«ay  to  my  dear  wife,  'What  I  doing  in  this  world;  oh,  what  can  I  do?  I  don't 
see  anything  good  in  my  hands,  anything  good  in  mine  heart — what  am  I  doing?' 
And  she  says,  '  Wait,  wait,  you  see  a  better  time;  nobody  could  do  the  work 
what  you  do,  wait.'  I  get  impatient,  but  I  pray  God  give  me  patience.  Many 
times  I  lift  up  mine  poor  hands  and  say,  *My  God,  remember  me.'  And  He  did. 
That  I  pray  many,  many  times— I  pray,  *  Lord,  stretch  out  Thine  almighty  hand 
before  I  die.*  I  am  waiting,  yes,  I  am  waiting  until  last  August  I  came  in  such 
a  condition  that  God  came  down  and  stretched  out  His  Almighty  hand  to  me  and 
cured  me  body  and  soul.  Oh,  what  a  God  in  Heaven;  what  a  friend  we  got  in 
Jesus!  oh,  what  a  friend  we  got  in  Jesus  !     What  shall  I  say  ? " 

Mr.  Dowie  asked  him  to  tell  how  he  suffered. 

"Well,  my  dear  friends,  when  I  tell  you  the  story  of  how  I  suffered,  1  have  to 
tell  you  I  lost  my  health  when  I  was  a  little  boy  four  years  old;  four  years  I  had 
good  health;  was  healthy  in  every  way;  then  I  fell  in  the  water,  and  there  I  was 
in  such  a  condition  I  was  dead  for  two  hours.  I  said  many  times  uafortunately 
my  poor  father  picked  me  up  and  rolled  me  so  long  I  got  my  life  again.  Many 
a  time  I  say  uafortunately;  but  God  had  some  work  for  me  in  this  world.  I  suf- 
fered along  and  my  parents  called  me  consumptive.  When  I  was  about  32  years 
old  then  my  heavy  saffering  commence,  and  now  for  the  last  thirty  years  I  had 
an  awful  suffering;  I  wouldn't  like  to  see  a  dog  in  the  world  suffer  like  I  did; 
God  forbid  that  I  ever  see  such  a  thing.  But  I  praise  God  there  came  a  sweet 
time  and  a  happy  time  ["Hallelujah!"  from  the  psople],  an  I  a  glorious  time,  and 
God  renewed  this  body,  and  now  it  is  hearty  and  sbrong.  The  flesh  on  the  poor 
bones  was  all  gone;  but  since  that  time,  about  three  wejks  ago,  I  weighed  myself 
and  I  gained  twelve  pounds  since  I  was  healed.  Oh,  what  a  God  in  Heaven! 
What  a  friend  we  have  in  Jesus.  I  thank  God  for  the  divine  healing  power;  and 
I  thank  mine  God  in  Heaven  for  this  dear  brother  [turning  to  Mr.  Bowie  and 
shaking  him  affectionately  by  the  hand],  that  he  send  him,  and  I  was  lucky  to 
hear  of  him,  ami  to  see  him  and  believe  him.  And  now  I  am  a  hearty  man. 
Praise  God  for  it." 
Mr.  Lathwesen  was  about  to  leave  the  platform,  when  Mr.  Dowie  said: — 
"One  momsnt,  dear  brother;  the  other  day  a  lady  came  to  me  and  remarked 
that  it  had  bsen  said  by  a  doct  )r  in  this  place,  who  was  a  very  kindly  man  usually, 
and  supposed  to  be  a  Christian  man,  when  visiting  a  patient  of  his,  that  this 
dear  brother  had  never  been  healed  and  was  just  as  bad  as  ever.  She  said,  *0 
doctor^  you  are  entirely  wrong. '  But  he  said,  *Iam  right;  I  know  batter  than 
you;  I  know  all  about  the  man.'  *  Why,'  she  said,  '  I  am  at  Dr.  Dowie's  maet- 
iags  with  the  man  every  day,  and  he  is  thsre  every  afternoon  and  evening,  and 
his  wife  testifies,  and  he  tastifies,  that  he  has  not  lost  a  single  hour's  work  since 
he  was  healed,  and  that  he  is  in  perfect  health,  and  he  has  gained  twelve  pounds.' 
"I  want  to  say  that  some  persons  imagined  Dr.  Bishop  was  the  doctor  to 
whom  I  referred  and  it  was  not.  I  do  not  know  the  name  of  the  doctor,  and  if 
I  did  I  would  nob  tall  it,  because  ho  apologized  at  oace  and  he  said,  *  Well,  I 
spoke  believing  what  other  people  said,  and  I  am  ashamed  of  it.'  Why  should 
you  repeat  what  other  people  say  unless  you  have  positive  information  direct? 

"  Now,  Brother  Lathwesen,  have  you  been  healed  all  the  time  ?" 

"  Yes,  sir,  I  am.     Thank  God  for  it."    [Very  emphatic] 

"AUof  the  time?" 

"Yes,  sir." 

"Able  to  work  all  the  time  ?  " 

**  Yes,  and  able  to  work  as  I  have  never  done." 

"l^  there  any  appearance  of  the  tumor?" 

"No,  it  is  all  gone." 

"  You  have  got  somathinsr  else  to  fill  up  there  now  [referring  to  increase  of 
fieali]  and  then  the  heart  is  all  right  ?  " 

"Yes,  sir." 

"  The  spine  is  all  right  ?  " 

"  The  spine  is  all  right." 

"  Yo'j  know  he  could  not  control  ftis  body  at  all.     So  far  as  you  know  jon 
are  a  perfectly  so^nd  man  ?  " 


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"Yes,  lam." 

"  I  bless  God  for  it;  the  Lord  bless  you.  Now  we  will  have  the  wife  come 
onto  the  stand;  she  can  talk  too,  she  has  got  something  to  say;  she  got  healing 
in  the  last  Mission,  and  got  healing  in  this  Mission.     Come,  dear  sister." 

Mrs.  Lathwesen's   Testimony  to  Her  Husband's  Healing 

and  to  Her  Own  Healing  of  Deafness,  Paralysis,  and 

Imperfect  Sight. 

Mrs.  Lathwesen  said:  **  I  am  very  glad  to  testify  to  such  a  full  house  as  is 
here  and  say  what  the  Lord  do  for  us.  I  say  'for  us;'  the  Lord  give  me  healing 
for  mine  own  self — that  I  could  tell — and  got  healing  for  mine  husband  too.  Since 
mine  husband  is  healed  we  have  got  a  happy  home;  I  never  get  sleepless  nights 
with  him  now;  he  can  lay  down  and  go  to  sleep  all  night  and  get  up  in  the  morn- 
ing and  go  to  work.  Before  it  was  many  times  four  o'clock  before  I  ever  shut 
my  eyes  just  on  account  of  him — he  was  so  sick,  and  he  would  struggle  in  the 
bed,  and  I  often  thought  this  is  the  last  attack  he  would  get  and  I  would  find 
him  dead  in  the  bed.  But,  Brother  Dowie,  I  can't  find  words  to  thank  the  Lord 
that  he  ever  sent  you  as  a  messenger  to  San  Jose.  ["Thank  God!  Thank  God!" 
from  the  audience.]  The  Lord  keep  you  a  good  many  years  and  send  you  to  good 
many  places  to  bring  the  good  news  that  the  healing  power  is  just  the  same  now 
as  it  was.  I  know  it  on  mine  husband;  everything  is  gone;  his  whole  body  is 
renewed — I  know  that.  If  I  go  on  the  street  often  I  meet  twenty  persons  and 
even  more,  and  they  ask  me,  *  You  believe  that  he  is  well?'  and  I  say,  'I  know 
it. '  And  they  say  it  will  not  last  a  very  long  time.  I  tell  them  the  Lord  make 
him  well,  and  He  will  keep  him.  I  know  that.  I  pray  for  that  and  mine  hus- 
band pray  for  that,  and  Mr.  Dowie  prayed  for  it.  And  so  the  Lord  keep  him 
and  that  is  five  months;  and  when  He  keep  him  live  months  He  will  keep  him  so 
long  as  he  has  to  live. 

"And  so  we  got  a  happy  time.  Always  when  I  used  to  go  down  town  the 
people  would  say,  '  How  is  your  husband  ?* 

"'Oh,  he  feels  very  bad,'  I  would  say.  Then  I  would  tell  him  and  he  would 
always  feel  so  bad;  and  it  got  to  be  such  an  old  story  that  I  did  not  know  what 
I  should  say.  He  suffer  so  much  that  I  look  up  to  the  Lord  often  and  say,  'O 
Lord,  it  is  a  little  thing  for  you  to  relieve  him  from  the  pain. '  Sometimes  a  sweat 
break  out  from  the  fever  and  pain;  you  don't  know,  you  can't  feel  the  feeling 
except  you  got  somebody  very  sick  mit  you.  They  told  me  a  few  weeks  ago  that 
he  was  not  sick — that  he  never  was  sick;  that  he  only  get  it  in  his  imagination. 
People  used  to  say  to  cie,  '  Sister  Lathwesen,  if  Mr.  Lathwesen  only  would  die  I 
believe  the  people  make  up  a  collection  and  pay  the  funeral  expenses. '     [Laughter.] 

"  I  was  healed  in  the  last  Mission  of  mine  hearing;  I  was  so  deaf  I  used  to 
sit  in  the  front  seat  at  church,  but  I  went  out  and  I  don't  know  anything  about 
the  preaching  at  all,  but  now  I  can  hear  anything;  if  I  sit  back  I  can  hear  every- 
thing. 

"Then  I  got  paralysis  in  my  leg;  I  never  speak  very  much  of  it;  I  thought  if  I 
speak  too  much  my  husband  would  trouble  about  it.  So  I  keep  it  to  myself— 
sometimes  I  speak  to  the  women,  and  they  say,  'You  look  out  you  get  paralysis.* 
I  say,  'Yes,  what  shall  I  do?    I  can't  help  it.'    But  the  Lord  relieve  me  of  that. 

"Brother  Dowie  was  speaking  about  the  spectacles  and  crutches  for  the  eyes 
on  Sunday,  and  I  went  with  my  spectacles  in  my  pocket.  But  I  never  use  them 
any  more.  To-day  about  twenty  minutes  before  dinner  I  thought  I  have  got  to 
read  a  little  if  I  shall  testify  to  my  eyes,  and  I  read  six  chapters  in  the  Bible 
without  spectacles;  and  then  I  read  here  and  there  in  Psalms,  and  everywhere  I 
open  the  book  I  can  read,  and  my  eyes  is  so  good.  I  thank  the  Lord  for  the 
healing  power.     ["Amens"  from  the  audience.] 

"  O  Brother  Dowie,  I  am  so  glad  the  Lord  sent  you  here;  may  he  keep  you 
for  a  good  many  years."  [Mrs.  Lathwesen,  before  leaving  the  stand,  shook  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Dowie  warmly  by  the  hand,  not  forgetting  the  little  son  and  daughter, 
who  were  close  by.  That  she  meant  all  she  said,  no  one  could  doubt  from  the 
expression  of  gratitude  upon  her  genial,  mfltherly  face.  ] 


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Additional   Important   Testimony  of  Mr.   Ch,  Lathwesen* 

Healing  of  Five  Other  Diseases,  viz.:  Catarrh  of  Lungs, 

Liver  Disease,  Kidney  Disease,  Piles  and 

Tape-worm. 

On  the  morning  of  Tuesday,  April  2  (nearly  eight  months  after  the  healing)^ 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lathwesen  called  upon  me  at  the  residence  of  Mr  Wm.  Fruhling, 
San  Antonio  and  Eighth  Sts.,  San  Jose,  and  Mr.  Lathwesen,  knowing  that  this 
edition  of  "  First  Fruits"  was  then  in  preparation,  made  the  following  statement 
in  the  presence  of  my  host.  He  confirmed  the  same  when  I  read  it  to  the  members 
of  the  San  Jose  branch  of  the  American  Dirine  Healing  Association  on  the  same 
evening  in  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  viz. : — 

"I  desire  now  to  add,  for  the  glory  of  God,  the  following  to  my  previous  tes- 
timonies delivered  in  San  Jose,  on  August  3,  in  San  Francisco  on  October  28, 
and  again  in  San  Jose  on  January  14,  viz.,  I  can  now  testify  also  that  I  was 
perfectly  healed  on  August  20  of  the  following  five  diseases:  Catarrh  of  lungs  of 
40  or  60  years*  standing,  liver  disease  of  44  years,  kidney  disease  of  46  years, 
piles  of  15  years,  and  a  tape- worm  from  childhood.  Some  of  these  things  were 
not  pleasant  to  speak  of  publicly,  but  as  I  have  ascertained  that  my  last  testimony 
is  about  to  appear  in  '  American  First  Fruits '  I  feel  it  to  be  my  duty  to  add  these 
words.  I  remain  in  perfect  health,  working  at  my  trade  every  day,  and  now,  in 
my  63d  year,  I  feel  a  stronger  man  than  at  any  time  in  my  life.  I  give  God  all 
the  glory,  and  desire  again  to  record  my  gratitude  to  Mr.  Dowie  as  His  servant.  "^ 

Ch.  Lathwesen. 

Witnessed  by  Wm.  Fruhling. 

Confirmation  of  Miss  Hudson's  Healing  of  15  Years' Rheu- 
matic G-out  and  Inflammatory  Rheumatism. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "Now,  beloved  friends,  I  am  very  glad  to  have  that  case. 
There  are  one  or  two  more  cases  of  the  last  Mission  I  would  like  to  have  testify. 

"A  lady  came  here  with  her  brother,  who  is  present  here.  Mr.  Hudson,  are 
you  present  here  somewhere?"  (A  voice  from  the  audience,  **  Yes,  sir.")  "  Yoa. 
brought  her  from  Canada,  Mr.  Hudson?  " 

"Yes,  sir." 

"I  would  like  to  say  this  dear  lady  was  brought  down  from  Peterborough^ 
Canada,  and  he  for  her  sake  left  his  own  beloved  wife  and  child  in  Canada  and 
came  to  California  for  the  health  of  his  dear  sister.  She  had  suffered  for  more 
than  15  years  from  chronic  rheumatic  gout,  and  inflammatory  rheumatism.  Her 
joints  were  in  such  a  condition  she  had  to  make  use  of  mechanical  appliances  to 
keep  the  bones  from  breaking;  they  were  just  as  brittle  as  they  could  be;  no  oil 
in  the  joints.  She  was  worn  to  a  skeleton;  only  able  to  get  about  occasionally 
upon  crutches,  and  in  continuous  agony  for  15  years.  She  came  here  last  March, 
I  came  here  in  August;  she  heard  of  the  Divine  Healing  work;  she  came  and  lis- 
tened to  the  teaching.  One  afternoon  she  came  into  the  healing  room  and  I  laid 
hands  upon  her,  and  instantly  she  was  on  her  feet  and  walked  away  without  her 
crutches.  She  has  walked  to  and  fro  ever  since.  She  had  been  pining  away  for 
15  years,  until  there  was  scarcely  anything  left  of  her  to  pine.  She  has  been 
gradually  gaining  strength.  I  want  to  say  that  when  I  came  down  this  time  J 
looked  at  her  from  the  platform  in  our  first  meeting,  and  I  thought  I  knew  that 
face,  but  I  had  to  look  at  her  two  or  three  times  in  the  audience  before  I  was  sure, 
for  she  had  grown  more  flesh}',  and  she  looked  so  much  stronger,  and  so  much 
fuller  and  ruddier  in  the  face.  I  dare  say  you  who  saw  her  in  the  former  Mission 
will  say  that  too.  I  would  like  dear  Miss  Hudson  to  testify.  I  know  she  could 
not  have  used  her  crutches,  for  they  have  been  in  my  care  and  possession  since 
last  August.     I  have  a  whole  bundle  of  them. " 

MISS  HUDSON  STEPPED  UPON  THE  PLATFORM 

And  said:  "I  am  rejoiced  fto  testify  for  Jesus;  for  His  healing  and  keeping  power. 
I  have  heard  all  over  San  Jose  that  I  am  worse  than  ever;  that  I  am  on  my 
crutches  and  suffering  more  pain  tha^I  did  before.  I  am  rejoiced  to  tell  you  that 
I  was  never  better  in  my  lif.';  for  five  months  I  have  beea  in  perfect  health.  I 
nsed  to  cry  at  night  very  often  with  pain;  I  now  often  cry  in  my  bed  for  joy;  t 


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am  in  perfect  rest  after  16  years  of  suffering.  I  tried  electricity  for  three  years, 
and  as  for  medicine  I  could  not  describe  what  I  have  taken — some  of  the  most 
bitter  medicine.  I  can  never  forget  the  joy  that  came  in  my  heart  when  I  heard 
that  Jesus  was  a  complete  Saviour  for  spirit,  soul  and  body.  I  was  weary  and 
anxious  to  go  home,  but  it  seemed  as  if  I  could  not  die,  and  then  I  wanted  health; 
and  when  I  heard  Jesus  would  heal  as  well  as  save  (I  knew  He  had  saved  my  soul), 
I  accepted  Him  as  my  healer;  and  from  that  moment  to  this  I  have  had  perfect 
health,  and  I  am  thankful.  Parties  have  told  me  it  was  magnetism,  but  I  tell 
them  different;  I  tell  them  I  have  found  the  right  Physician  at  last;  it  is  only 
Jesus  that  can  heal  when  everything  fails;  there  is  power  enough  in  Him;  in  Him 
we  find  a  balm  for  every  wound,  a  cordial  for  every  fear. 

*'  It  is  a  wonder  to  me  that  so  many  of  God's  own  children  will  not  accept  this 
beautiful  doctrine.  I  thought  the  day  after  I  was  healed  that  everyone  who  be- 
lieved in  Jesus  and  were  sick  would  surely  accept  Him  as  a  complete  Saviour.  He 
is  dearer  tame  this  last  five  months  than  ever  before.  He  sympathizes  with  us 
in  all  our  experiences,  and  we  can  go  to  Him  with  all  our  little  trials  and  troubles. 
Mr.  Dowie  told  us  Saturday  night  that '  there  shall  be  no  pain,'  that  the  leaves  of 
the  Tree  of  Life  are  'for  the  healing  of  the  nations.'  It  rejoices  me  to  know 
there  is  a  leaf  for  every  wound,  and  Jesus  is  the  Tree  of  Life.  I  want  every  one 
of  Christ's  children  who  are  suffering  to  fly  right  to  Jesus.  I  have  been  so  dis- 
appointed; my  hopes  have  been  so  many  times  built  up  only  to  be  blasted  once 
more;  but  when  we  go  to  Jesus  there  will  be  no  disappointments;  He  will  be  our 
Saviour  and  helper  in  every  time  of  need.  [Turning  to  Mr.  Dowie]  I  can  never 
thank  you  enough  for  being  willing  to  come  to  San  Jose  for  my  sake,  to  teach  me 
those  beautiful  truths;  and  though  my  heart  is  sad  to  think  we  may  never  meet 
again,  I  know  I  shall  meet  you  on  that  other  shore;  I  shall  be  waiting  for  you;  I 
will  be  there  to  meet  you."  [Gives  Mrs.  Dowie  an  affectionate  kiss.] 
I  Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  I  will  ask  her  brother  who  brought  her  to  California  to 
tell  the  story.  I  never  heard  you  speak  before.  Let  it  be  a  time  of  glorifying 
God.     I  know  how  glad  you  are." 

Mr.  Hudson  said:  "  I  am  glad  to  be  able  to  testify  to  the  healing  power  of 
Jesus.  I  know  my  sister  has  suffered  for  15  years;  I  cannot  tell  you  how  much 
she  has  suffered.      I  know  now  she  is  well. 

*'  I  have  suffered  a  great  deal  from  catarrh,  but  I  feel  I  am  healed  from  that. 
I  thmk  we  have  a  great  Saviour,  and  we  can  trust  Him  to  heal  us  besides  saving 
our  souls.  I  am  very  thankful  to  Mr.  Dowie  for  coming  to  San  Jose  to  give  us 
this  teaching  and  that  we  are  healed." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  Thank  the  Lord!  you  confirm  all  your  sister  has  said  about 
her  case?  " 

*'Yes,  sir." 

"  She  had  suffered  for  15  years  ?  " 

"Yes,  for  15  years." 

*'  And  this  was  the  last  hope,  to  bring  her  to  California  ?  " 

**  Yes,  sir.  Bat  the  climate  did  not  seem  to  have  any  beneficial  effect  upon 
her." 

"  Thanks  be  to  God  for  His  power.  I  thank  you,  brother,  and  I  thank  God 
you  are  healed  too. " 

Confirmation  of  Mrs,  Walker's  Healing. 

There  was  a  dear  sister  at  the  last  Mission  came  out  of  her  bed  and  was  healed. 
She  writes  me  to-night.  She  is  Mrs.  Mary  F.  Walker,  and  she  writes  from  the 
northwest  corner  of   Third  and  Jackson  Streets. 

"  I  wish  to  testify,  dear  Dr.  Dowie,  that  I  have  been  healed  through  faith  in 
Jesus.  I  never  had  any  return  of  the  trouble  I  had  last  July.  My  baby  has  been 
healed  of  severe  illness,  and  my  husband  helped  in  answer  to  prayer. 

"  We  are  all  so  thankful  that  God  has  sent  you  and  your  dear  wife  to  bring 
leaves  of  healing  to  suffering  humanity.  Yours  in  Jesus, 

*'Mary  F.  Walker." 

Mrs.  Walker  said:  "  I  don't  know  how  to  express  my  gratitude  to  God  for 
sending  Mr.  Dowie  to  us  with  these  glad  tidings;  and  I  wish  every  Christian  would 
embrace  them."  * 


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Mr.  Dowie  said:  **  I  am  so  glad  that  Mrs.  Walker's  sister  and  aunt  have  been 
brought  to  the  Lord  during  the  Mission,  and  that  they  are  here  to-night  rejoicing 
in  Him." 

Instantaneous  Restoration  of  a  Young  Lady's  Impaired  Sight 
"Without  Human  Touch. 

Now  there  is  another  testimony  belonging  to  the  last  Mission,  although  the 
dear  sister  did  not  testify  at  that  time.  A  very  sweet  little  case  has  come  up.  I 
will  read  the  testimony,  and  perhaps  the  young  lady,  who  is  a  member  of  Centella 
Church,  will  add  something  to  it. 

"137  North  Tenth  Street,  San  Jose. 

"  Dear  Sir:  I  wish  to  give  God  the  praise  for  having  healed  my  eyes,  which 
were  so  aflfected  as  to  render  me  unable  to  read,  write  or  sew,  or  engage  in  any 
similar  occupation.  The  circumstances  in  brief  were  as  follows:  I  had  been  hav- 
ing my  eyes  treated  for  18  months  by  a  prominent  oculist.  Dr.  Simpson,  and  al- 
though they  were  improving  he  gave  me  no  hopes  of  a  perfect  cure,  and  said  I 
would  have  to  wear  glasses  many  years. 

**  But  thanks  be  to  God  I  learned  through  your  teaching  that  Jesus  was  the 
great  healer.  I  went  home  in  prayer,  and  he  answered  my  prayer  by  healing  my 
eyes  instantly,  giving  mo  a  perfect  sight.  This  was  at  the  time  of  your  last  Mis- 
sion in  this  city.  Since  then  I  have  attended  school  every  day  and  have  had  no 
trouble  with  my  eyes  whatever.     Glory  to  God.  Yours  in  Christ, 

"Belle  Bowman." 

"  Now  let  us  see  you.     I  think  all  know  you." 

Miss  Bowman  stepped  upon  the  rostrum  beside  Mr.  Dowie,  and  said:  **  I  feel 
that  I  never  can  be  thankful  enough  to  the  Lord  for  what  He  has  done  for  me.  I 
had  suffered  so  much  and  so  many  times  I  felt  the  pain  that  I  had  in  my  eyes  was 
almost  unbearable.  I  had  been  treating  for  18  months,  and  still  the  doctor  gave 
me  no  hope  of  going  to  school  and  studying.  Very  often  I  would  ask  him  if  he 
did  not  think  that  after  a  while  I  could  go  without  my  glasses,  but  he  never  said 
yes.  I  never  really  had  any  hope  of  going  without  them;  I  supposed  I  would  al- 
ways have  to  wear  them.  The  doctor  said  they  could  be  made  stronger  so  they 
would  probably  give  me  no  pain,  yet  they  would  be  weak,  and  I  would  not  be  able 
to  see  well  with  them. 

*'  When  Dr.  Dowie  held  his  last  Mission  here  my  parents  went  to  hear  him, 
and  they  would  come  home  and  tell  me  how  good  it  was,  and  would  explain  to 
me  what  he  had  told  them,  and  I  felt  that  I  must  come  and  hear  him;  that  if  I 
could  just  hear  him  I  would  be  healed.  I  went  one  afternoon  feeling  that  Jesus 
would  heal  my  eyes,  and  He  did  heal  me.  I  had  been  wearing  dark  glasses  for 
two  years,  and  I  took  them  right  off,  and  I  said,  *  I  know  they  are  all  right  now,' 
and  they  were.  About  two  weeks  after  that  I  started  to  school.  I  had  not  been 
for  two  years.  I  have  been  going  to  school  every  day  and  have  not  had  a  bit  of 
trouble  since.  I  never  can  be  thankful  enough  to  Mr.  Dowie  for  teaching  me  that 
Jesus  is  my  healer." 

Mr.  Dowie  then  said:  "I never  touched  the  dear  maid;  did  not  know  she 
was  healed  until  I  came  to  the  city  on  this  last  Mission.  Now  where  is  the 
magnetism  in  that  ?  Some  folks  call  it  animal  magnetism,  and  I  am  the  animal 
that  did  it.  If  that  is  the  case,  I  want  you  should  pay  the  animal.  Where  is 
the  animal  magnetism,  beloved  ?  I  didn't  know  the  dear  maiden  at  all;  I  didn't 
know  she  had  been  healed  until  this  Mission;  but  like  many  others  she  followed 
the  teaching  and  she  said,  *0f  course  he  is  right;  Jesus  is  the  healer,'  and  look- 
ing to  Jesus  only,  she  took  off  her  spectacles  and  she  saw  clearly.  Who  did  it  ? 
You  can't  talk  about  its  being  imagination;  Dr.  Simpson  didn't  think  he  was 
treating  a  case  of  imagination. " 

"Dear  Mr.  Bowman,  will  you  add  a  word  ? — the  father  of  this  young  sister. 
He  is  a  prominent  member  and  office  bearer  of  this  church." 

Mr.  Bowman  said:  "I  feel  that  it  is  only  necessary  to  corroborate  what  my 
daughter  has  said.  There  is  one  thing  she  might  have  added  to  the  last  of  her 
testimony,  which  would  prove  that  she  has  used  her  eyes  to  a  great  extent;  she 
has  stood  at  the  head  of  her  class.  So  you  see  the  necessity  of  her  using  her  eyes 
a  great  deal.  Before  that  time  she  cdhld  not  go  to  the  well  ^r  a  dipper  of  water 
without  having  her  glasses  on." 


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**  I  have  heard  Dr.  Simpson  tell  her  myself  that  he  had  no  hope  that  she  could 
get  along  without  wearing  some  kind  of  glasses.  I  believe  in  giving  a  man  credit 
for  all  that  is  due  to  him.  Her  eyes  were  at  one  time  very  seriously  affected,  and 
they  were  comparatively  improved  at  the  time  she  went  to  this  Mission  in  last 
August,  but  not  so  she  could  use  them.  She  got  out  her  books  at  that  period  a 
number  of  times  and  attempted  to  study,  but  her  eyes  would  pain  her  so  she 
would  have  to  give  it  up.  So  we  know  her  eyes  were  aflfected  seriously  at  the 
time  she  went  to  the  Mission;  and  we  know  she  has  never  said  one  word  about 
their  troubling  her  since.  I  know  one  time  when  she  was  going  out  in  the  sun, 
her  mother  suggested  that  she  put  her  glasses  on,  and  she  said,  '  Do  you  wear 
glasses  when  you  go  out  ? '  Her  mother  said,  *  Of  course  not, '  and  she  replied, 
•  Then  /  don't  need  them. '  " 

[  Mr.  Dowie  said:  **  Where  is  that  mother?  I  think  you  had  better  stand  up 
and  confess  your  sins.  Corroborate  the  dear  daughter's  testimony — just  a  word 
from  you.     It  will  be  nice  to  get  the  mother's  testimony." 

Mrs.  Bowman  said:  "She  had  a  shade  she  used  to  wear,  before  her  healing, 
over  her  eyes  in  the  evening,  and  one  morning  as  we  were  going  out  in  the  hot 
sun,  I  said,  *  Hadn't  you  better  take  your  shade  along  to  shade  your  eyes  ? '  She 
looked  at  me  and  she  says,  *  Do  you  need  a  shade  for  your  eyes  ? '  I  said,  '  No; 
my  eyes  have  not  been  bad  as  yours  have  been. ' 

*•  'Well,'  she  says,  'if  you  don't  need  it,  /  dorCt.^  So  that  is  all  about  the 
glasses." 

Mr.  Dowie  then  said:  "  Thanks  be  to  G-od.  How  many  of  you  know  Belle 
Bowman,  and  know  how  she  suffered  with  her  eyes?  Just  stand.  [A  number 
5tood  up.]  Her  pastor  knows  it.  Brother  Gale,  just  add  a  word;  you  happen  to 
be  on  your  feet." 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Gale,  pastor  of  Centella  M.  E.  Church,  said:  "  I  need  not 
corroborate  at  all  sister  Belle  Bowman's  statement,  for  all  who  know  her  know 
that  she  would  not  dissemble  in  the  least  ["Thanks  be  to  God,"  from  Mr.  Dowie], 
not  in  the  least,  everybody  who  knows  her,  knows  that.  I  know  that  since  my 
pastorate  began  in  this  city,  that  many  times  she  had  to  be  in  a  dark  room,  not 
permitted  to  have  any  light  at  all,  her  eyes  would  not  endure  it.  Thank  God  that 
he  has  heard  her  prayer  and  healed  her.  [Mr.  Dowie  exclaimed,  "Thank  God! 
Thank  God!  "] 

"She  was  a  teacher  in  our  Sunday-school;  she  tried  to  teach,  but  had  to  give 
it  up  because  her  eyes  were  so  bad.  And  the  boys  whom  she  taught  felt  very 
badly;  they  said,  '  We  want  Miss  Bowman  to  teach,  we  don't  want  anybody 
else. '  Thank  God  she  is  now  healed,  and  now  teaches  her  class  in  the  Sunday- 
school.  " 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "Will  all  those  who  have  been  healed  in  their  eye-sight  in 
this  Mission,  please  stand — who  have  got  power  to  see?  [Several  rose.]  There 
is  quite  a  number  who  have  been  healed  in  their  eye-sight  in  this  Mission. 

"I  will  ask  this  sister  to  speak." 

Another  Case  of  Restoration  of  Imperfect  Sight. 

Mrs.  D.  A.  Brown,  52  South  Second  Street,  said:  "  I  want  to  speak  a  word, 
dear  friends,  for  Jesus;  nothing  that  I  have  done  for  myself  or  anything  done  for 
me,  just  Jesus.  Last  summer  in  July^  at  the  camp-meeting — and  there  are  a  good 
many  here  to-night  whom  I  saw  there,  and  who  know  my  eye  was  very  bad.  I 
went  with  it  all  tied  up.  It  was  all  swelled  up.  Brother  Newton  held  a  Healing 
Meeting.  I  went  up  to  the  meeting,  and  the  second  day  I  felt  that  I  was  healed, 
and  I  took  the  cloth  right  off  and  went  home;  I  never  put  it  on  again.  The  eye 
has  been  gradually  healing  ever  since;  but  still  I  wore  spectacles. 

"Last  Thursday  Brother  Dowie  spoke  about  taking  away  'the  crutches  from 
our  eyes,'  and  the  next  morning  at  11  o'clock  I  read  a  few  verses  in  my  Bible  and 
went  up  into  the  closet  and  I  prayed ,  and  as  I  came  out  I  picked  up  my  Testament, 
and  I  said,  'How  well  I  can  read.'  I  never  could  see  so  well  before.  I  went 
down-stairs  and  told  my  husband;  I  went  rejoicing;  I  said,  '  Praise  the  Lord, 
Jesus  has  healed  my  eyes. '  And  I  read  a  few  verses  to  him,  and  said,  '  Just  see 
how  well  I  can  read  in  this  Testament  without  my  glasses.'  He  handed  me  a 
paper,  the  Youth's  Companion,  which,  as  you  know,  is  quite  fine  print,  and  I  read  a 


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few  lines  ofif  without  my  glasses.  I  have  not  had  them  on  since.  I  praise  God 
for  it  all.  Now  the  same  day  I  found  some  pills  in  the  house,  and  just  the  looks 
of  them  made  me  sick  to  my  stomach;  and  I  threw  them  in  the  stove.  I  said, 
•That  is  the  last  of  medicine  that  goes  down  my  throat.' 

**  I  praise  God  for  all  he  has  done  for  me.  My  head  and  eyes  never  felt  so 
well  as  they  do  to-night.  I  give  God  all  the  praise;  and  I  also  thank  Brother 
Dowie  for  his  wonderful  teaching,  and  know  I  have  been  greatly  blessed.  May 
you  be  successful  wherever  you  go." 

Healing  Instantaneously  of  Fifteen  Years'  Disease  of  a 
Young  Man. 

"Now  there  are  to  be  other  classes  of  healing.  The  first  person  healed  in  this 
Mission  is  a  brother,  Charles  P.  Grant.  He  is  a  native  of  the  State  of  Maine, 
and  has  been  in  this  country  about  two  years;  is  working  upon  the  corner 
of  Julian  and  Fifteenth  Streets.  He  was  healed  in  the  first  days  of  the  Mission, 
when  the  Lord  opened  his  understanding  as  to  the  Scriptures,  and  he  sought  and 
received  healing  of  fifteen  years'  trouble. " 

Mr.  Grant  said:  *'  I  have  had  suffering  more  or  less  all  my  life.  I  think  it 
was  on  New  Year's  night  you  spoke  on  the  *  Two  Chains.'  That  night  I  was 
healed  through  faith  in  Jesus.  I  am  a  native  of  New  England.  I  came  out  to 
this  country  partly  for  my  health,  and  I  thank  the  Lord  I  got  it.  Last  summer 
working  in  the  orchards  I  felt  pretty  tired,  not  fit  either  to  live  or  die,  that  is  about 
the  way  anybody  feels  when  they  are  sick;  the  curse  is  on  them.  I  wrote  to  my 
sister  something  about  it;  I  felt  so  that  I  never  would  get  well  unless  by  a 
miracle.  When  you  opened  your  Mission  here  on  New  Year's  eve,  that  con- 
vinced me  that  Jesus  was  the  Healer;  and  on  the  next  night  when  I  retired  I 
asked  Him  in  full  faith  with  all  my  heart,  soul  and  spirit  and  body,  and  He  came 
in  a  bright,  shining  vision,  that  was  GLORIOUS  !  THAT  WAS  GLORIOUS  ! 
UNSPEAKABLE  1  I  can't  doubt  the  divinity  of  Jesus  Christ— I  could  not. 
He  said  He  had  all  power  to  restore  and  to  heal  the  sick  and  unfortunate  of  my 
class,  and,  alas!  there  are  many  such.  I  don't  know,  but  I  think  that  the  full 
effects  of  the  Divine  Power  was  on  me  for  about  fifteen  minutes.  I  was  pretty 
near  transfixed.  When  it  went  off  I  just  jumped  up  and  I  shouted  'GLORY  ! ' 
I  was  so  full  for  I  was  healed  and  blessed.     I  have  to  thank  you  Mr.  Dowie." 

**  Do  you  feel  perfectly  well?" 

♦*Ido." 

**  How  many  years  did  you  suffer?  " 

"About  sixteen  years  from  dyspepsia,  and  the  result  of  other  troubles.  The 
doctor  said  I  had  passed  through  enough  for  any  man  to  pass  through.  Pretty 
nearly  enough  to  lose  my  reason. " 

Mr.  Dowie  continued:  **He  suffered  all  these  years  as  many  young  men 
suffer.     The  Lord  be  thanked;  He  has  put  him  perfectly  right." 

Mr.  Grant  said:  "The  Lord  says  His  word  shall  stand  forever;  not  one  jot  or 
tittle  but  shall  be  fulfilled.''     ["  Hallelujah!  "  from  Mr.  Dowie.] 

Remarkable  Conversion  and  Healing. 

**  I  am  empowered  to  testify  on  behalf  of  Mr.  Chapman,  of  Polhemus  Street, 
between  Santa  Clara  and  San  Jose.  The  story  is  an  exceedingly  interesting  one; 
I  would  like  to  state  it  just  as  it  has  been  stated  by  himself  publicly  in  this  place 
this  afternoon.  He  has  been  at  the  meetings  from  11  a.  m.  to-day,  and  as  he  is 
an  aged  gentleman,  he  has  gone  home  with  his  dear  wifej  he  has  given  me  per- 
mission to  speak  for  him. 

"In  this  last  Mission,  about  the  middle  of  the  month  of  August,  1888^  at 
the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  out  of  the  many  hundreds  of  petitions  I 
received,  there  was  one  asking  me  to  pray  for  an  unconverted  husband;  the  letter 
said  that  he  was  an  open  blasphemer,  far  from  God,  and  that  the  writer,  his  wife, 
loved  him  dearly,  and  mourned  that  he  was  an  alien  from  God.  The  petition  was 
very  touchingly  worded,  and  amongst  other  petitions  I  laid  it  before  God.  A  few 
minutes  passed  and  we  were  engafred  in  other  exercises,  when  a  letter  was  handed 
Tip  to  me  to  this  effect  (I  have  it  somewhere  among  my  papers):  'It  is  supposed 


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that  a  Mrs.  Chapman  is  in  your  meeting;  will  you  please  break  tho  news  to  her 
as  tenderly  as  you  can,  that  her  husband  has  been  thrown  from  his  buggy  and  has 
baon  picked  up  for  dead;  blood  is  running  out  of  the  left  ear,  aud  he  is  lying  un- 
cooscious,  and  it  is  feared  he  will  die  before  she  reaches  home.  Will  you  break  it 
to  her  so  she  may  not  be  surprised  ?  '  I  asked  if  Mrs.  Chapman  was  in  the  meet- 
ing. It  was  the  very  same  Mrs.  Chapman  whose  name  was  at  tho  bottom  of  t'.ie 
petition  for  prayer  for  this  husband.  The  lady  rose  in  the  meeting.  How  many 
of  you  were  there  and  saw  her  stand  up — will  you  please  riso  ?  [Qaito  a  number 
stood  up.]  Thank  you.  Weil,  I  went  down  to  se3  hor.  I  asked  the  people  to 
sing  a  hymn,  and  I  went  down  to  see  Mrs.  Chapman,  and  I  said:  '  Sister,  I  have 
got  some  news;  was  this  your  petition  for  your  husband's  conversion  ? ' 

*'  Yes,  sir." 

'*' Well,' I  said,  *  the  devil  is  trying  to  kill,  him;  the  devil  knows  that  I 
have  been  praying  in  faith  for  his  conversion  here  tliis  afternoon,  but  I  have  just 
heard  that  he  is  thrown  out  of  his  buggy  and  picked  up  for  dead.  Xow  don't  l^e 
troubled,  he  is  not  going  to  die,  he  is  not  going  to  die,  don't  be  troubled.'  She 
looked  at  me.  I  said:  *  You  go  home,  sister,  it  is  all  right,  we  will  keep  you  up  in 
j)rayer  before  Cod;  he  is  not  going  to  die.  You  will  find  him  unconscious,  but  I 
exhort  you  in  Jesus'  name  to  hold  on.^ 

"  She  went  home.  The  next  day  they  told  me  he  was  unconscious,  still  we 
held  on,  and  said  he  was  not  going  to  die.  The  third  day  he  was  unconscious 
still,  but  during  that  day  he  woke.  Now,  let  me  go  back  into  the  history  of  the 
case.  He  had  been  ill  for  over  two  years,  and  on  crutches  nearly  all  of  the  time; 
seven  months  of  that  period  he  kad  been  in  bed  suffering,  and  unable  to  turn  him- 
self without  aid.  But  he  would  not  hear  the  Name  of  Jjgsus  mentioned  in  his 
presence,  nor  allow  anyone  to  pray.  His  wife  said  she  used  to  crouch  behind  the 
bed  and  pray  silently.  At  the  time  of  which  we  have  been  speaking,  when  he 
was  hurt,  he  was  in  a  condition  that  he  could  be  lifted  into  his  buggy  and  drive 
into  town  and  attend  briefly  to  his  business,  and  then  go  back  again.  He  had 
been  doing  that  on  the  day  he  was  thrown  out  and  picked  up  in  the  condition  I 
have  described. 

*•  Wlien  he  was  aware  that  we  had  been  praying  for  his  conversion  within  a 
few  minutes  of  his  being  thrown  out  of  his  buggy,  he  said:  *  The  prayers  of  that 
man  of  God  and  of  the  people  of  God  have  been  answered,  and  I  owe  my  life  to  the 
mercy  of  God  and  to  their  prayers;  and  now  if  God  will  have  mercy  upon  me  I 
will  seek  His  face. '  And  he  set  to  work  from  that  time  to  seek  the  face  of  God, 
and  he  prayed  without  ceasing,  until  it  seemed  as  if  his  reason  would  go,  that  God 
would  have  mercy  on  him,  *  such  a  sinner.'  One  morning  he  woke  up  with  a  con- 
sciousness that  God  had  had  mercy  on  him.  No  human  minister  was  there  to 
teach  him,  The  Holy  Spirit  alone  ministered  to  him. 

'*  And  now  he  has  been  waiting  forme  to  come  down  here  to  San  Jose,  and  he 
has  been  at  all  our  meetings.  He  had  been  upon  his  crutches  until  the  other  day, 
when  he  was  there.  It  was  last  Wednesday,  he  was  sitting  there,  and  I  asked  a  dear 
little  Swedish  woman  who  has  been  healed  in  this  present  Mission  to  stand  up  and 
testify  to  her  healing,  one  afternoon.  She  did  so.  I  then  said,  '  Now  you  say  you 
were  crippled — let  us  see  how  you  can  walk.'  She  had  not  been  able  to  walk 
without  limping,  for  years,  but  rose  and  walked  rapidly  to  the  front  of  this  platform. 
I  then  said,  *  Go  round  the  church.'  She  then  laid  hold  of  this  aged  Swedish 
sister  sitting  here  [indicating],  and  said,  '  You  come  too.'  And  this  sister,  who 
had  been  suffering  from  eighteen  years  of  sickness,  rose,  followed  this  poor  woman, 
and  in  doing  so  was  healed  instantly.  Quite  a  number  of  other  peeple  in  the 
meeting  began  to  say  they  were  healed.  Presently  I  saw  Mrs.  Chapman  talking 
to  Mr.  Chapman,  and  I  said,  '  In  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus,  Brother  Chapman, 
you  rise  up. ' 

**  I  had  been  speaking  about  the  paralytic  man  in  the  9th  chapter  of  Matthew, 
and  Brother  Chapman  just  rose,  left  his  crutches  behind,  and  walked  up  and  down 
the  place,  and  upon  legs  with  which  he  had  not  walked  for  two  years.  When  he 
was  thrown  out  of  his  buggy,  his  previous  injuries  were  aggravated  by  the  concus- 
sion, and  the  knee-cap  split;  but  he  is  now  in  such  a  condition  that  he  can  walk 
about,  and  can  take  off  the  harness  from  his  horse.  He  left  his  crutches  behind 
him,  and  he  was  here  to-day  walking  without  them. 


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"  All  who  saw  that  scene  Nyill  you  please  stand  ?  [Many  rose;  Mr.  Dowie 
counted  them  and  said,  "  There  are  thirty -two."]  Thank  you.  Now  that  scene 
happened  in  the  presence  of  many  witnesses  who  have  stood  before  you,  and 
is  no  fable. " 

Healing  Instantaneously  of  One  Afflicted  for  Eighteen  Years. 

"Now  I  would  like  the  dear  aged  lady  who  was  healed  that  afternoon  while 
we  were  speaking  of  the  paralytic  man,  to  whom  Jesus  said,  *  Take  up  thy  l^ed 
and  walk,'  to  testify.  I  was  so  full  of  faith,  and  so  were  the  people  on  that 
afternoon,  that  I  told  quite  a  number  of  folks  to  rise  in  Jesus'  name,  and  they  did 
it  and  were  healed. " 

An  aged  lady  rose  and  gave  her  name  as  Marian  Neilson,  residence  306 
East  Clay  Street,  San  Jose.  She  talked  the  English  language  very  indistinctly, 
and  it  was  difficult  to  report  much  that  she  said.  But  she  was  very  earnest  and 
eager  to  tell  about  her  healing,  and  caused  a  great  sensation  among  the 
audience.  She  expressed  her  thanks  that  the  Lord  had  taken  away  her  pain, 
which  was  very  great;  one  trouble  was  rheumatism.  She  spoke  of  5lr.  Dowie'a 
remarks  about  the  paralytic  man,  and  how  she  had  been  healed  and  relieved  from 
pain  afterwards.  She  turned  around  and  said,  **I  thank  you,  Mr.  Dowie;  I  thank 
you,  Mrs.  Dowie.  " 

^Ir.  Dowie  asked,  '*  Are  you  quite  well  ?  *' 

"Yes,  sir." 

"  How  many  years  were  you  sick  ?  " 

"  Eighteen  years. " 

••  And  you  are  now  quite  well  ?  " 

"  Yes;  just  in  a  moment  my  pain  stopped,  and  I  can  go  where  I  want  to 
now." 

Mr.  Dowie  exclaimed,  "  Thanks  be  to  God.  Look  at  her  happy  face.  Let 
her  husband  tell  the  story.     Yon  stand  up,  dear  brother. " 

Confirmation  by  Her  Husband. 

**  My  wife  has  been  sick  about  eighteen  years,  since  I  lived  in  Iowa;  she  had 
been  sick  there  nearly  all  the  time,  sometimes  in  bed.  Then  we  lived  in  Tacoma, 
Wasliiiigton  Territory,  and  I  have  been  here  about  eight  months.  She  was  sick 
up  there  all  winter  long;  I  had  three  doctors  there,  she  had  awful  sickness  there, 
and  then  I  went  down  here  for  health,  and  she  felt  some  better  since  she  came 
here ;  but  she  had  pain  and  she  was  sick;  she  had  pain  in  the  body  all  over.  I 
said,  *  "We  will  go  to  Dr.  Dowie  and  try  to  get  healed. '  She  was  very  sick  last 
month  and  now  she  feels  all  right.  I  see  myself  she  feels  better.  I  can  sleep 
good  now,  and  I  can  use  my  arms  all  right.  She  had  rheumatism  and  great 
pain. " 

**  You  know  she  is  well  ?    Does  she  sleep  well? " 

**  Oh,  yes.  She  never  could  walk  up  town  before,  but  she  can  do  it  now  all 
the  time. " 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  *'  Hallelujah;  and  you  got  a  blessing  ?  " 

**  Yes,  I  feel  a  great  deal  better,  too;  I  know  my  head  is  better,  and  I  will 
praise  God  for  what  He  done  for  me  and  my  wife.  I  feel  very  glad  to  know  Je- 
sus saved  my  soul.  I  am  free  and  clean;  He  took  everything  away.  We  have 
been  children  of  God  for  about  twenty-two  years.  ['*  Thanks  be  to  God,"  from 
Mr.  Dowie.]     I  know  Jesus  is  the  same  now  as  He  was  before." 

Mr.  Dowie  said  to  him,  "  You  send  that  news  to  Sweden.  Thank  you.  God 
bless  you." 

Healing  of  Twenty  Years'  Heart  Disease  and  Many  Troubles. 

**  Now  I  have  got  a  little  testimony  here,  written  by  Mrs.  Nellie  Hatfield,  of 
48  North  Third  Street,  San  Jose:  'For  twenty  years  I  have  had  heart  disease,  and 
sharp  pain;  had  other  disease  in  connection  with  heart  trouble ;  was  very  feeble, 
and  it  seemed  as  if  it  would  cease  altogether,  and  that  death  was  near.  I  also 
had  trouble  with  the  stomach.  My  food  did  not  assimilate,  and  my  body  and 
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limbs  were  swollen.  I  had  difficulty  in  working,  I  suffered  much  pain  in  my  head. 
A  week  ago  Sunday  night  I  was  taken  with  pain  in  my  heart,  and  instead  of  using 
former  remedies  I  prayed  to  the  great  Healer,  and  the  pain  all  left  me  and  I  slept. 
Wednesday  night  I  felt  the  pains  in  my  stomach,  and  I  went  direct  to  the  Saviour 
and  He  completely  cured  this  poor,  pain-inflicted  body.  In  the  morning  when  I 
rose  I  was  all  healed  ;  the  swelling  in  my  body  and  limbs  was  all  gone,  and  I  am 
now  perfectly  well  and  free  from  all  my  former  complaints.  I  want  to  give  God 
all  the  glory.  Mrs.  Nellie  Hatfield.  ' 

**  Just  rise  and  confirm  that  testimony,  dear  sister." 

Mrs,  Hatfield  responded:  "I  can't  express,  hardly,  the  gratitude  I  owe  to 
God,  for  I  can't  tell  the  suffering  I  passed  through.  A  year  ago  I  lost  my  little 
boy,  four  years  old,  I  had  then  this  heart  trouble,  and  after  he  died  it  seemed 
much  worse,  and  I  had  those  spells  frequently,  and  the  doctor  would  come  two 
or  three  times  a  day.  He  said  sometimes  he  did  not  think  I  could  live  five  min- 
utes ;  that  it  was  not  possible.  Those  spells,  seemed  to  come  on  faster  and  faster; 
I  used  to  have  them  nearly  all  the  time.  My  heart  did  not  beat  right,  and  my 
stomach  was  in  such  a  condition  that  eating  a  small  piece  of  bread  would  dis- 
tress me,  and  I  could  hardly  endure  it ;  I  was  nervous,  and  could  not  walk  a 
block  without  being  tired  out.  One  Sunday  I  thought  I  would  come  up  here  ; 
but  I  was  afraid  to  go  out,  for  I  had  those  spells  so  often.  I  never  dared  go  alone. 
The  Sunday  I  came  here  to  the  meeting  I  was  taken  with  this  pain  in  my  heart 
when  I  got  home.  I  had  been  taking  medicine,  and  the  more  medicine  I  took,  it 
seemed,  the  worse  I  felt.  So  I  took  it  to  Jesus,  and  I  felt  better  in  a  little  while. 
The  next  morning  I  got  up  and  I  says  to  my  husband,  *  I  am  being  healed;  I  feel 
it  in  my  heart.'  He  says,  'Ain't  you  kind  of  nervous  ?  I  think  you  are.'  I  said, 
'No,  I  feel  it,  I  KNOW  IT  !'  That  day  I  felt  so  well  I  thought  I  would  go 
to  meeting  in  the  afternoon,  and  I  came  to  the  meeting ;  I  felt  I  could 
walk  so  fast.  Then  I  felt  so  well  I  went  back  at  night.  The  Wednesday 
following  I  was  here  at  this  meeting,  when  this  lady  who  has  just  testified  was 
healed.  I  went  home  that  night,  and  after  I  had  retired  this  pain  came  into  my 
stomach,  and  I  said,  *  What  shall  I  do  ?  '  just  like  that.  My  husband  said,  *  You 
said  you  was  going  to  take  it  to  Jesus, '  I  prayed  to  God  to  take  it  away,  and  it 
was  not  five  minutes  until  it  left,  and  when  1  got  up  in  the  morning  I  felt  per- 
fectly well. 

"When  I  used  to  go  out  with  my  husband  I  would  be  half  a  length  behind 
him,  and  now  he  says  it  is  all  he  can  do  to  keep  up  with  me.  I  am  so  happy,  I 
feel  like  singing  all  the  time  ;  and  I  do  thank  Brother  Dowie  that  he  brought  this 
news  to  this  place,  and  so  many  have  been  blessed  through  him. " 

Confirmation  by  Her  Husband. 

'*  Will  that  dear  husband  tell  us  about  the  healing  of  his  wife  ?  " 

Mr.  Hatfield  rose  from  the  back  side  of  the  building  and  said:  "  I  can  say 
that  all  my  wife  has  said  is  true.  I  will  add  more  to  it.  For  a  year  not  only 
regularly  did  she  take  some  remedy  before  she  went  to  bed,  but  many  a  night  I 
have  had  to  get  up  and  go  for  a  doctor.  I  made  up  my  mind  the  doctor  was  not 
doing  her  any  good.  We  give  her  ererything  we  could  think  of  ;  she  was  tak- 
ing pills  and  everything  else.  So  this  night  she  was  speaking  about  (I  don't  like 
to  get  up  nights  out  of  bed  and  strike  a  fire  and  heat  water,  and  make  ginger  tea, 
and  all  these  things),  I  said,  *  You  just  take  that  to  the  Lord;  I  don't  want  to 
get  up,'  ["  That's  candid,"  by  Mr.  Dowie,]  So  I  just  plagued  her  a  little. 
She  said,  *  I  won't  touch  medicine.  I  am  just  going  right  to  the  Lord. '  I  was  j  ust 
getting  ready  to  light  the  lamp  and  I  said,  '  How  do  you  feel  now  ?  ' 

*  * '  Well,  I  feel  pretty  well,'  she  said,  *  I  am  going  to  sleep.'  Then  I  went  to 
sleep.  I  told  her  the  next  morning  when  we  got  up  that  she  had  better  be  a  lit- 
tle bit  careful  about  eating,  and  see  if  you  are  healed  or  not.  (I  am  ashamed  of 
that  now.)  She  said,  *  I  do  feel  it;  I  DO  FEEL  IT  !'  I  said,  *  It  is  all  right,  but 
wait  a  little  while. ' 

"  She  spoke  about  walking  and  being  behind;  she  always  used  to  be  behind 
this  way,  but  now  it  is  turned  around,  and  I  am  behind/  this  way.  [He  illustrated 
the  two  positions  quite  graphically,  and  greatly  amused  the  audience.]     So  it  is  a 


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great  benefit  to  us  ;  great  benefit  to  me.  I  am  praying  for  grace  so  that  I  will  be 
able  to  keep  alongside  of  her. " 

Mr.  Dowie  said  :  "I  saw  you  both  coming  along  to  this  meeting  to-night,  at 
a  good  swing  in  front  of  me." 

Mr.  Hatfield  added  :  * '  I  am  expecting  the  Lord  to  just  put  me  right  along- 
aide  of  her,  and  to  keep  up  with  her. " 

Confirmation  of  Healing  of  Spinal  Disease. 

Mr.  Dowie  said :  '  *  I  want  little  Miss  May  Jackson,  of  Saucelito,  who  was 
bealed  in  our  Mission  in  San  Francisco,  of  spinal  complaint,  to  say  a  word.  She 
is  gloriously  healed. " 

Miss  Jackson  said  :  *'  I  would  like  to  say  a  word  for  Jesus  and  tell  what  He 
has  done  for  me.  I  suflFered  for  ten  years  with  spinal  disease.  I  have  been 
treated  by  the  best  doctors,  and  in  the  Surgical  Institute  in  San  Francisco,  and 
the  doctors  all  said  I  would  have  to  wear  braces  all  my  life,  and  not  only  a  back 
brace,  but  a  leg  brace.  I  have  suffered  a  great  deal ;  I  have  been  so  I  was  un- 
able to  turn  over  in  bed,  and  I  could  not  move  myself.  I  have  always  been  told 
that  Jesus  sent  the  pain  and  I  must  bear  it  well  for  His  sake. 

'  *  I  heard  Mr.  Bowie  in  July  last,  and  I  at  once  accepted  Jesus  as  my 
Healer.  I  heard  him  on  a  Sunday,  and  then  on  Thursday,  in  the  meeting,  while 
Mr.  Dowie  was  praying — he  did  not  lay  hands  on  me — just  all  kneeling  down,  I 
felt  the  Lord  was  going  to  heal  me;  and  I  said,  *I  will  touch  Christ.'  Then  I 
felt  a  strange  feeling  go  through  me,  and  I  put  my  hand  to  my  back  and  the 
curvature  had  gone  down  wonderfully.  *  Since  then  the  Lord  has  been  healing  me 
wonderfully  all  the  time,  and  I  have  had  no  pain  whatever.  Before  that  I  was 
so  weak  at  times  that  I  would  have  to  lie  in  bed  for  days  at  a  time.  I  thank  God 
all  the  time  for  what  He  has  done  for  me.  He  has  not  only  been  my  healer,  but  He 
keeps  me  ever  since.    And  I  want  to  thank  Mr.  Dowie  too." 

Mr.  Dowie  then  turned  Miss  Jackson  around  so  that  her  back  was  to  the  au- 
<iience,  and  he  said;  **  Her  back  curved  outwardly,  now  you  see  it  is  back,  in  an 
opposite  way.  [To  all  appearance  her  back  was  perfectly  natural.]  The  dear 
young  sister  has  been  taking  care  of  my  little  daughter  at  her  home,  and  she  is 
her  father's  housekeeper,  and  she  can  take  care  of  the  whole  household ;  she 
took  good  care  of  my  little  girl.  She  is  a  very  happy  little  lady,  as  you  can  see, 
and  she  is  able  to  tell  what  the  Lord  has  done  for  her." 

Our  Perplexity. 

Mr.  Dowie  said,  with  an  air  of  perplexity,  "There  are  so  many  here  who 
have  been  healed,  that  I  shall  have  to  ask  some  to  give  short  testimonies.  We 
have  a  number  of  most  interesting  cases. " 

Healing  of  Ten  Years'  Asthma,  Catarrh  and  G-ravel. 

Mr.  Dowie  then  called  upon  Mr.  F.  X.  Lussier,  352  South  First  Street, 
and  said  :  "Our  brother  came  just  as  he  was  on  the  eve  of  undergoing  an  opera- 
tion of  a  serious  character.  He  felt  that  he  must  come  and  hear  what  we  had  to 
say,  and  he  has  been  healed,  and  ever  since  has  been  able  to  enjoy  splendid 
health.     I  believe  he  is  a  member  of  this  church." 

Mr.  Lussier  said  :  **I  have  been  sick  for  ten  years;  have  had  asthma,  ca- 
tarrh and  gravel.  I  decided  to  come  to  California  for  the  benefit  of  my  health, 
but  could  not  get  rid  of  my  troubles.  Last  week  (Tuesday)  I  went  up  to  see 
the  doctor  (Dr.  Bishop)  and  he  said  it  would  be  necessary  for  me  to  have  an  oper- 
ation. I  was  going  to  have  it  done  but  my  wife  objected  to  it.  I  met  Brother 
Bowman  that  day,  and  he  told  me  I  better  go  and  see  a  Dr.  Christ.  I  believed 
in  Christ,  of  course,  but  I  did  not  have  any  faith  to  get  cured  by  Him.  But  on 
Sunday  afternoon  I  came  here,  and  Dr.  Dowie  asked  me  if  I  believed  in  Christ, 
and  I  said,  'Yes.'  Mr.  Dowie  laid  hands  upon  me  and  prayed.  I  felt  healed. 
That  night  I  went  to  bed  and  slept  all  night,  and  the  next  morning  I  felt  better, 
and  I  have  been  gaining  from  that  time  till  now.    I  thank  God  for  His  healing. " 


What  I  See- What  I  Hear- What  I  Feel- 

Mr.  Dowie  then  called  upon  "William  Fnihling,  corner  Eighth  and  San  An- 
tonio Streets,  to  testify,  who  responded  as  follows  (speaking  very  fervently,  with. 
a  strong  German  idiom,  evidently  with  deep  feeling.) 

•  *  The  first  thing  I  want  to  say  is  what  I  seen,  and  the  next  thing  what  f 
heardy  and  the  next  what  I  feel.  I  got  about  three  points.  ["  Hallelujah,  a  good 
arrangement, "from  Mr.  Dowie.] 

**  The  first  thing  is  I  see  Brother  Lathwesen.  I  know  Brother  Lath wesen 
since  came  in  town  here,  and  he  stay,  I  guess  about  a  week  or  two  in  my  houso 
when  he  came  here,  which  was  about  fourteen  or  fifteen  years  ago.  And  the  next 
thing  I  been  with  him  last  August  in  the  Pacific  Grove,  just  about  pretty  near  a 
month  right  together.  Brother  Lathwesen  was  so  he  could  not  walk  very  little, 
about  half  a  block.  I  got  my  buggy  and  I  thought  I  drive  him  around  once  in  a 
while,  but  he  could  not  stand  even  that.  Then  Brother  Baker  went  down  there 
(he  live  there),  and  I  heard  that  Brother  Dowie  was  down  here,  and  the  people 
get  healed  here.  So  Sister  Lathwesen  went  down  here,  she  thought  so  long  as 
we  staid  there  he  would  be  safe,  she  was  generally  afraid  to  leave  him  alone. 
Then  Mrs.  Lathwesen  sent  word  that  he  shall  come  right  away  down  to  the 
meeting,  that  he  would  be  healed.  Well,  I  and  my  wife  was  a  kind  of  afraid,  we 
knew  how  he  was,  he  was  just  in  such  a  state  that  we  thought  every  moment  it 
would  be  the  last  of  him,  because  he  went  this  way.  [Illustrated  by  going  through 
a  series  of  violent  muscular  contortions.]  He  sit  on  a  chair,  and  sometimes  it 
seemed  as  if  the  chair  would  tumble  right  over.  So  my  wife  said,  '  We  won't 
say  nothing  this  evening,  for  fear  when  lie  hears  it,  it  will  be  the  last  of  him.* 
So  we  waited  till  the  next  day,  and  then  I  sent  word  to  Mrs.  Lathwesen  that  she 
should  come  right  up.  That  was  on  Wednesday;  on  Thursday  we  thought  we 
would  stay  a  week  longer,  and  then  we  thought  we  go  down,  so  went  on  Thursday. 
Sister  Lathwesen  came  on  the  train  and  we  went  back  with  her  and  Mr.  Lathwe- 
sen. On  Saturday  morning  I  heard  that  Brother  Lathwesen  got  healed.  AYell, 
I  tell  you  it  was  just  so  to  me  as  if  the  mountains  there  had  been  moved,  because 
I  know  in  what  kind  of  state  he  was.  I  know  how  he  had  been  the  last  few 
days.     It  was  just  terrible.     But  the  Lord  change  his  condition  altogether. 

'*  The  next  thing  is,  I  knew  Mr.  Chapman,  who  was  so  wonderfully  saved 
and  healed;  I  had  a  good  deal  to  do  with  him,  I  know  what  kind  of  a  man  he 
was;  I  had  been  talking  to  him  a  good  many  times  about  Christ.  But  he  was 
one  of  the  greatest  infidels  I  think  I  ever  saw.  It  was  about  Good  Friday,  two 
years  ago,  there  was  a  servant  there,  a  German  girl,  and  she  came  to  our  church, 
and  so  we  promised  to  go  there  and  see  her;  and  so  it  was  Good  Friday,  and  me 
and  my  wife  went  there  to  see  her;  he  was  not  at  home,  and  his  wife  neither. 
This  girl  was  there  and  she  was  distressed  in  her  spirit,  and  so  we  talked  with  her 
a  little,  and  after  that  we  prayed  with  her,  and  she  got  converted  in  his  parlor. 
The  same  Good  Friday  the  girl  got  sick  and  she  wants  to  leave,  because  she  could 
not  stand  the  work,  there  was  a  great  deal  of  hard  work,  and  she  asks  us  if  she  could 
come  to  our  house  for  a  few  days,  and  we  tell  her  she  could.  One  day  I  went 
down  there  to  get  a  trunk,  and  Mrs.  Chapman  was  there,  and  there  happened  to 
be  another  girl  there  just  in  her  place.  But  a  few  days  before  I  got  the  trunk  I 
saw  her,  and  she  was  a  German  girl,  and  I  had  been  asking  about  her  soul  (because 
I  was  German  too),  and  so  I  tell  her  about  the  church  and  that  she  could  come 
there.  We  talked  German.  Mr.  Chapman  said,  *  Now  you  don't  come  any  more 
to  my  house,  you  get  our  girls  to  go  away.'    But  it  was  not  our  intention  at  all. 

**  The  next  point,  that  is  myself.  I  have  been  troubled  this  last  four  or  five 
years.  The  first  thing  I  had  pneumonia  and  lung  fever,  and  the  next  thing  I 
had  bronchitis,  and  sometimes  I  could  not  speak  without  coughing  very  much, 
and  now  I  tell  you  I  been  going  out  this  last  week  in  the  rain  and  the  fog,  and 
the  Lord  keep  me.  This  morning  when  I  was  getting  up  I  had  a  pain  in  my  right 
side  and  in  my  lung  and  I  thought  I  get  another  spell,  and  it  seem  to  me  the  devil 
just  had  me  and  there  was  a  kind  of  temptation.  But  I  bless  the  Lord  He  just 
came  in  and  the  pain  went  away,  and  my  lungs  stuck  right  out  here  somehow  or 
another  [illustrating],  and  I  feel  just  so  happy.     [Much  laughter.] 

**  The  next  thing  is,  I  praise  God  for  His  salvation.     I  know  the  Word  ot 


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Crod  from  my  youth  up,  and  I  tell  you  I  never  experienced  more  light  and  more 
glory  in  the  Word  of  (iod  than  I  do  to-night.  The  most  precioua  thing  in  the 
Word  is  salvation,  it  is  so  true,  it  is  just  so  light.  I  tell  you  that  is  the  greatest 
blessing  what  a  man  can  ever  get  when  a  man  can  reaa  the  Word  of  God  and 
know  what  it  means,  for  the  salvation  of  the  body,  soul,  and  spirit.  May  God 
bless  you  all." 

Forty  Healed,  Prepared  to  Testify. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "I  thank  Brother  Fruhling  for  his  testimony.  Now  I  want 
short  testimonies,  there  are  more  than  forty  persons  here  prepared  to  testify  who 
have  been  healed;  if  anyone  who  has  been  saved  feels  like  saying  a  word,  please 
rise  and  do  so. "  A  gentleman  rose.  Mr.  Dowie  asked,  "You  have  been  saved 
in  this  Mission?" 

Saved  and  Healed. 

He  said  he  had,  and  continued  as  follows:  "  That  is  one  thing  to  be  thankful 
for,  I  have  been  a  good  ways  off  from  the  Lord,  but  I  felt  seriously  troubled 
about  it.  I  did  not  hear  Brother  Dowie  when  he  held  his  Mission  here  before, 
but  I  happened  to  come  in  last  Sunday  a  week  ago,  and  he  made  a  strong  im- 
pression upon  my  heart,  and  I  said,  *  O  Lord,  please  forgive  my  sins, '  My  wife 
had  told  me,  '  Now,  when  you  go,  let  God  heal  you  too.'  Well,  I  had  faith  to  be 
healed,  and  thank  the  Lord  He  has  healed  me  in  one  way.  I  had  an  unfortunate 
habit  of  smoking;  my  wife  has  often  said,  '  I  think  we  will  have  to  put  your  pipe  in 
your  coffin,  you  could  not  get  along  without  it.'  I  had  it  in  my  pocket  when  I 
came  to  church  and  I  tried  to  get  it  out  twice  on  the  way,  but  the  Lord  seemed 
to  possess  me  and  I  shoved  it  back  again.  When  I  got  home,  do  you  know  I 
longed  to  smoke,  but  the  Lord  says,  *No,  you  shall  not  do  that,'  and  the  Lord 
has  kept  me  this  week. 

"I  will  tell  you  another  thing  He  has  healed;  He  has  healed  my  heart." 
Mr.  Dowie  asked  if  he  had  smashed  up  the  pipe,  to  which  he  said: — 
'  *  I  keep  it  as  a  memento,  if  I  should  throw  it  away  I  might  be  tempted  of 
the  devil  to  buy  another  one.     I  will  keep  that  to  keep  me  from  smoking;  I  have 
no  other  use  for  it. 

"  Another  thing  I  can  praise  God  for,  I  feel  like  I  was  a  hundred  pounds 
heavier  and  stronger,  not  alone  in  body,  but  in  spirit.  ["  Hallelujah,"  from  Mr. 
Dowie.]  I  can  go  on  the  street  and  carry  myself  upward*  I  praise  the  Lord 
from  morning  till  night,  and  when  I  go  to  bed  I  sleep  sound,  and  I  have  not  done 
that  before.  This  is  all  I  have  to  say. "  [The  gentleman  gave  his  address  as  57 
Webber  Street,  off  South  Seventh  Street,  San  Jose,] 

"  Is  There  a  Doubting  Thomas  Here  ?  "   Not  One,  Brother ! 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "I  would  like  to  hear  a  few  words  from  Brother  Folsom. 
I  am  deeply  indebted  to  the  brother  for  all  his  kindness  in  connection  with  this 
Mission." 

Mr.  Folsom  said  :  "I  can't  add  anything  to  this  testimony,  it  is  overwhelm- 
ing; can  you  ask  for  any  more,  are  you  not  satisfied  ?  Is  there  a  doubting  Thomas 
in  the  congregation  to-night  ?  " 

Mr.  Dowie  took  this  occasion  to  ask  all  who  believed  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
was  the  Healer,  to  stand  to  their  feet,  and  nearly  the  entire  audience  rose,  and 
he  exclaimed,  "  Thanks  be  to  our  God." 

He  then  said:  **  Those  who  do  not  believe  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  Healer, 
will  they  just  stand  to  their  feet  ?  " 

Mr,  Folsom  said  with  great  emphasis,  "  Not  one,  brother!  "  "  They  dare  not 
stand  up,  I  am  like  the  brother  here,  the  Lord  in  these  meetings  has  done  more 
for  my  soul  and  to  lift  me  up  than  He  has  for  my  body,  but  He  has  done  wonder- 
ful tilings  for  my  body.  Is  there  one  in  this  house,  is  there  one  that  has  heard 
all  of  this  that  does  not  humble  himself  and  get  lower  and  look  upon  Jesus  as 
his  complete  Saviour — not  a  half  Saviour  ?  This  to  which  we  have  listened  is  a 
whole  gospel,  not  a  half  gosijel.  Is  there  one  word  in  it  which  you  cannot  receive  ? 
Has  there  a  word  been  preached  here  but  what  Christ  preached  when  He  was  on 
the  earth  ?    When  the  question  cams  up  here  before  the  officers  of  this  church 


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whether  or  no  Brother  Dowie  should  be  asked  to  hold  meetings,  there  was  not  a. 
dibsenting  voice.     How  glad  I  am  that  was  the  case. 

"Now,  when  Brother  Dowie  goes  away,  this  healing  does  not  go  away,  this 
power  does  not  go  with  Brother  Dowie,  he  has  only  taught  us  the  lessons  where 
we  could  find  this  healing.  And  there  are  so  many  here  unsaved  that  these  meet- 
inga  are  going  to  continue.  Come  and  be  saved.  ["Amen,"  from  the  audience.]- 
Come  to  Christ,  and  then  you  can  find  the  healing  right  here  just  as  you  have 
through  Brother  Dowie.  Now  these  meetings  are  going  on  to-morrow  night; 
come  in;  come  everyone  who  don't  know  Christ  and  seek  Christ  and  be  saved, 
and  then  you  can  claim  Him  to  heal  your  body.  And,  oh,  how  grand  it  is  to 
have  a  Saviour  that  comes  down  to  save  the  soul  and  heal  the  body  and  make  us 
all  complete! 

"Now,  while  He  has  done  great  things  for  me  bodily.  He  has  done  more  for  me 
spiritually.  I  see  faces  here  all  around  me  that  I  met  in  meetings  fourteen  months 
ago,  and  they  know  how  I  stood  then;  to-day  I  can't  tell  how  much  nearer  Christ  is 
to  me.  It  is  wonderful,  and  I  am  enabled  with  the  help  of  Christ  to  do  more  in 
one  day  than  I  did  in  weeks.  Here  are  sisters  and  brothers  around  me  who  met 
me  in  the  First  Church,  now  come  and  receive  this  Saviour  as  Healer,  as  a  perfect 
Saviour. 

"Now,  Brother  Dowie  wants  me  to  say  something  for  my  wife;  He  has  done 
wonderful  things  for  my  wife,  not  only  this  time,  but  when  we  went  to  the  other 
Mission  she  was  wonderfully  helped;  it  come  in  like  a  flood  and  partially  over- 
whelmed her.  She  has  been  holding  on  as  well  as  she  could.  And  now  she  has 
been  attending  these  meetings  right  through,  until  about  Saturday,  when  she  was 
taken  suddenly  ill.  Sunday  she  got  very  bad,  very  bad,  so  that  the  pain,  she 
said,  in  her  throat  seemed  just  like  needles  that  went  through  her,  and  almost 
stopped  her  breath.  To-day  noon  I  told  Brother  Dowie,  and  he  went  over  with  me. 
She  was  lying  on  the  lounge  partially  dressed,  in  easy  clothes,  a  morning  gown. 
She  could  not  speak  aloud,  only  in  a  whisper,  and  suffering  very  much.  Brother 
Dowie  talked  to  her  a  little  while  and  laid  hands  on  her,  and  immediately  she 
was  relieved,  and  there  was  only  just  the  least  feeling  left.  Her  throat  was  so 
sore  this  morning  that  she  ate  nothing,  but  she  rose  at  once  after  Brother  Dowie 
prayed  and  laid  hands  on  her,  and  went  with  him  to  the  table  this  noon  and  ate 
a  hearty  dinner — one  or  two  eggs  and  bread  and  butter,  and  drank  some  h»t  water, 
and  this  evening  she  is  quite  comfortable,  but  a  little  weak.  So  the  Lord  has 
done  much  for  my  ho^e  in  the  way  of  healing,  but  more  spiritually. 

"Accept  this  Saviour!  I  would  ask  every  unsaved  one  to  accept  this 
Saviour  that  can  heal  spirit,  soul  and  body.  ["  Hallelujah,"  from  the  audience.] 
He  can  raise  you  on  a  higher  plane. 

"  [Turning  to  Mr.  Dowie]  I  thank  you  for  all  your  kindness  to  me  and. 
mine.  But  understand  me,  you  have  only  pointed  us  to  Christ."  (Mr.  Dowie 
said,  "We  give  him  all  the  glory.") 

Trying  to  Close  the  Meeting. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  **  I  do  thank  God  for  the  dear  brother's  testimony.  Now, 
beloved  friends,  I  want  to  get  to  the  meeting  of  the  new  Branch  which  we  are 
forming  here  of  the  American  Divine  Healing  Association,  which  we  hold  at  the 
close.  I  will  just  ask  all  who  have  not  testified  just  to  stand  to  their  feet — all 
who  have  been  healed  through  faith  in  Jesus,  rise!  There  are  more  than  thirty 
standing  who  have  not  testified. "  [A  gentleman  back  in  the  audience  said  he 
would  like  to  say  a  word,  and  was  allowed  to  do  so.] 

'*  Pray  for  Me ! "   The  Cry  of  a  Man  Seriously  Injured  and 
G-od's  Answer. 

Mr.  James  0.  Mitchell  said:  "  I  would  like  to  say  a  word  on  this  Divine 
Healing.  I  was  under  great  doubt  about  it.  Last  Saturday  a  man  was  telling  me 
about  his  own  healing.  Well,  at  the  time  I  doubted  it.  He  referred  me  to  Dr. 
Bishop  as  to  how  ill  he  had  been,  and  I  went  to  Dr.  Bishop  and  asked  him  about 
it,  and  he  said  the  man  was  very  sick  and  he  did  not  expect  the  man  would  ever- 
get  out  of  his  house  again.     This  man  has  testified  here  to-night. 


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"  There  is  another  case  I  saw.  A  man,  to-day,  hurt  his  back  at  a  house 
where  I  was,  from  falling,  and  I  took  him  and  put  him  in  a  wagon  and  took  him 
home;  he  was  in  great  pain.  He  went  to  bed,  and  was  not  there  five  minutes 
when  he  says  to  his  wife,  '  Pray  for  me.'  That  man  jumped  out  of  bed  and  said 
he  was  well,  and  we  started  off  and  walked  two  miles;  fifteen  minutes  before,  he 
could  hardly  walk  at  all.     This  man  is  a  well  man,  healed  through  faith  in  Jesus. " 

Reasons  for  Being  Particular. 

The  man  who  was  injured  was  present,  and  Mr.  Dowie  called  upon  him  to 
state  his  case,  which  he  did.  He  gave  his  name  as  William  McElanon,  living  at 
77  Union  Street.  As  the  name  was  peculiar,  the  reporter  asked  for  the  spelling 
of  it  twice,  and  Mr.  Dowie  said  to  the  audience:  **  I  will  tell  you  one  reason  why 
we  are  so  particular.  In  Oakland,  lat«ly,  a  minister  went  to  investigate  some  case 
of  healing,  and  he  said  in  a  Pastors'  Meeting  in  San  Francisco,  that  he  tried  to  find 
the  first  person  mentioned  in  pamphlet  *  American  First-Fruits,'  and  he  could  not 
find  the  person  at  the  number  given,  which  was  160  Broadway;  he  said  there  was 
no  number  there,  that  it  was  out  in  the  water.  Now  if  that  minister  had  been 
candid,  he  would  have  asked  if  there  was  any  mistake.  The  correct  number  was 
860  Broadway,  and  because  of  the  printer's  mistake,  he  read  a  paper  charging 
that  the  healings  were  false.  We  are  going  from  here  to  Oakland,  and  we  shall  prove 
Jiis  charges  false,  by  the  evidence  of  the  people  themselves,  who  will  re-affirm 
their  healing  publicly.     So  we  try  to  be  careful  and  get  the  exact  address." 

The  Words  of  the  Man  Himself. 

Mr.  McElanon  testified  as  follows:  **  About  ten  o'clock  this  morning,  I  went 
out  on  Third  Street,  for  Brother  Clinton,  where  he  is  building  a  house,  and  I 
went  up  on  the  porch,  and  the  railing  was  just  fastened  up,  and  I  leaned  against  it 
and  I  went  right  over,  falling  about  five  feet,  and  struck  on  the  small  of  my 
back  across  a  piec«  of  timber.  I  could  not  get  up.  They  took  me  up  and  put 
me  in  the  wagon;  I  could  hardly  walk,  and  could  not  move  without  pain.  I  ate 
a  little  dinner  and  went  to  bed.  I  asked  the  Lord  to  help  me,  and  I  began  to 
feel  better.  I  said,  '  I  know  the  Lord  will  cure  me,'  and  I  cried,  'Pray  for  me,' 
and  then  jumped  right  up.  Now  I  have  no  pain;  only  at  times,  when  I  stoop  a 
little,  do  I  feel  the  slightest  effect  of  the  accident." 

Mr.  Dowie  asked,  *'  And  this  accident  happened  this  moAing?  " 

"Yes,  sir." 

**  And  you  had  heard  our  teaching  ?  " 

**Yes,  sir." 

'*  And  you  believed  it  ?  " 

'*  Yes,  sir.  Brother  Clinton  took  me  home,  he  can  tell  about  it."  [Pastor 
Gale  spoke  to  Mr.  Dowie,  and  said  the  speaker  was  a  member  of  the  church,  and 
Mr.  Dowie  so  announced.] 

Confirmation  by  One  Who  Carried  Him  Home. 

Mr.  Clinton  was  then  asked  to  speak;  he  rose  and  said,  after  giving  his  name 
as  J.  E.  Clinton:  **  I  took  him  home  from  the  building.  He  was  assisted  to  the 
wagon  with  considerable  difficulty.  We  drove  him  home.  The  riding  in  the 
wagon  hurt  him  very  much.  When  I  got  to  his  house  we  took  him  out,  and  I 
turned  around  and  went  away.  I  know  he  was  quite  seriously  hurt.  I  see  him 
now  here,  healed." 

A  Good  Closing  Testimony. 

Mr.  Dowie,  with  a  good  deal  of  enthusiasm,  said:  "Thanks  be  to  God;  that 
is  what  I  call  a  good  closing  to  the  Mission.  Here  is  a  brother  attends  the  meet- 
ing, he  is  a  child  of  God,  he  listens  to  the  doctrine,  he  is  not  sick,  but  suddenly 
an  accident  occurs,  and  instead  of  sending  for  surgical  aid  or  medical  treatment, 
the  man  calls  upon  Christ  for  help,  and  he  jumps  out  of  his  bed  and  is  quite  well. 
Under  ordinary  circumstances  a  man  falling  like  that  might  be  ill  for  weeks  and 
months,  but  here  he  is  to-night.     Praise  be  to  the  Lord  Jesus;  He  is  physician 


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and  surgeon  and  everything;  He  mends  and  keeps  His  people.     Hallelujah  to 
His  name.     We  will  give  Him  all  the  glory. 

**Now,  beloved,  I  would  just  like  my  dear  wife  to  say  a  word  or  two;  will  you 
just  allow  me  to  ask  her  to  say  the  closing  words  of  the  Mission.  Come,  dear. 
Mrs.  Dowie  will  say  a  word." 

Mrs.   Bowie's  Closing  Address. 

Mrs.  Dowie  said:  **  It  gives  me  very  much  pleasure  to  hear  all  the  beauti- 
ful testimonies  this  evening.  I  am  sure  we  are  all  very  grateful  to  God  for  His 
goodness,  and  that  He  has  shown  in  this  place  that  He  is  not  only  a  Saviour 
from  sin,  but  He  is  the  Healer  of  our  diseases  as  well;  that  we  can  take  all  our 
ains  and  all  our  diseases  and  lay  them  upon  Him. 

**  I  think  at  this  late  hour  and  after  hearing  all  this  beautiful  testimony,  you 
do  not  want  to  hear  anything  further  from  me  to-night.  I  feel  my  heart  is 
very  full,  and  it  has,  indeed,  been  a  joyful  meeting;  it  has  been  joyful  to  sit 
here  and  listen  to  all  that  we  have  heard.  God  has  confirmed  His  Word.  The 
scenes  we  have  witnessed  here  have  been  just  the  same  wherever  we  have 
preached  this  gospel.  This  healing  is  indeed  Divinely  scientific — not  that  which 
IS  falsely  called  *  Christian  Science' — but  we  know  it  is  scientific  because  where- 
ever  it  is  preached  we  see  exactly  these  results;  we  see  the  lame  walk,  the  blind 
see  and  the  deaf  hear,  and  to  the  poor  this  gospel  is  preached.  As  one  dear  sis- 
ter said,  who  is  not  here  to-night,  but  who  has  testified  in  these  meetings,  she  said 
when  she  first  came  to  the  meetings  and  listened  to  the  Word,  she  could  not  un- 
derstand everything  (she  was  a  Swede),  but  she  listened.  She  said  somebody 
told  her  when  she  first  came  that  she  would  have  to  be  perfect.  *  I  knew  I  was 
not  perfect;  but  when  I  listened  to  the  teaching  that  Jesus  was  the  healer,  that 
He  was  healing  the  sick;  and  when  I  heard  it  was  to  the  poor  the  gospel  was 
preached,  I  knew  I  was  poor,  and  that  was  for  me;  I  knew  I  was  lame  and  sick 
all  over  in  body,  and  the  Lord  Jesus  made  me  to  see  that  this  healing  was  for 
me. '  And  she  went  home  and  asked  the  Lord  to  heal  her,  and  he  took  away  all 
her  pains  and  all  her  sickness  and  healed  her  perfectly.  That  is  the  dear  sister 
who  was  used  to  help  this  dear  old  lady  here  (Mrs.  Neilson)  to  her  healing;  she 
said  to  her,  'Jesus  did  it  for  me,  you  come  and  He  will  do  it  for  you  too;  Ho  did 
it  for  me.  He  will  do  it  for  you.'  We  just  have  to  go  and  tell  others  what  Jesus 
has  done  for  us  and  what  we  have  seen  Him  do  for  others,  and  tell  it  in  such  a 
way  that  the  people  can't  help  receiving  it;  they  must  be  convinced  that  *  Jesus 
Christ  is  the  same  yesterday,  to-day,  and  forever,'  that  His  words  are  true  when 
He  said,  *  Lo,  I  am  with  you  always,  even  unto  the  end  of  the  world. '  Jesus 
Christ  is  here  to-day  healing  by  His  Spirit,  and  He  dwells  in  the  hearts  of  the  be- 
liever, and  He  can  fill  these  temples  of  ours  and  tabernacle  with  us;  He  fills  our 
spirits,  souls  and  bodies,  and  He  leads  us  by  His  beautiful  Word,  and  *  faith  comes 
by  the  hearing  of  the  Word  of  God. ' 

' '  We  are  so  rejoiced  that  our  dear  Saviour  is  lifted  up .  He  said,  *If  I  be  lifted 
up,  will  draw  all  men  unto  me.'  And  He  is  lifted  up  as  the  Healer  as  well  as 
the  Saviour.  As  in  the  wilderness  the  brazen  serpent  was  lifted  up  and  the  people 
looked  upon  it  and  were  healed,  so  it  is  with  Jesus;  when  He  is  lifted  up  before 
the  people  they  see  Him  as  the  Saviour  and  also  as  the  Healer. 

"I  am  pleased  to  have  been  here  to-night  and  to  have  had  such  a  beautiful 
meeting  ;  I  thank  God  for  it,  and  I  just  say  to  you  all,  God  bless  you;  may  He 
be  with  you  all,  and  may  you  never  forget  this  beautiful  teaching  as  long  as  you 
live,  for  Christ's  sake. " 

Mr.  Dowie  then  spoke  briefly  and  closed  the  meeting. 

[Dr.  Holmes  handed  to  me  the  following  note  during  my  visit  to  San  uose, 
relating  the  incident  narrated  on  pages  36  and  37  of  "First- Fruits,"  and  asked 
me  to  give  a  place  in  this  edition.] 

**Sax  Jose,  Cal.,  Jan.  2,  1889. 

"  I  desire  publicly  to  say  that  the  statement  in  Mr.  Dowie's  pamphlet,  'Amer- 
ican First- Fruits  is  correct,  for  I  was  an  eye-witness  to  the  incident.  I  had 
just  spoken  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie  as  they  passed  out  of  the  church,  her  hand 


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grasping  his  arm,  and  they  had  walked  but  a  few  feet  when  Mr.  Bowie  slipped 
and  fell,  and  so  great  was  the  force  of  the  fall  that  he  was  suddenly  wrenched 
from  her  arm  and  fell  with  great  force  on  the  asphaltum  sidewalk.  I  stepped  to 
him  immediately,  and  took  hold  of  him  and  helped  him  up,  and  he  and  one  or 
two  others  called  on  Jesus  for  help.  That  help  seemed  to  come  immediately. 
He  looked  at  first  somewhat  pale,  but,  after  standing  a  short  time,  he  started  for 
his  hotel,  accompanied  by  his  wife  and  one  gentleman.  I  went  part  of  the  way 
with  him.  This  was  almost  night,  and  when  the  usual  time  came  for  services, 
the  church  was  filled,  and  some  said,  *  Now  is  the  time  to  test  his  faith  and  doctrine.* 
Many  were  agreeably  surprised  to  see  him  come  into  the  church  and  conduct  the 
services  as  usual,  except  that  he  did  not  use  the  arm  that  was  dislocated  at  the 
shoulder.  He  did  not  seem  to  have  any  pain  while  speaking.  The  services  that 
night  lasted  till  nearly  II  P.  M.,  and  then  he  retired  to  his  hotel.  I  saw  him 
next  day  and  he  was  apparently  as  well  as  usual.  S.  Holmes. 

Extracts  from  a  Report  of  a  Praise  and  Testimony  Meeting 
Held  in  Oakland,  California,  in  Hamilton  Church,  by- 
Rev.  John  Alexander  Dowie  and  "Wife,  after  a  Two 
"Weeks'  Mission,  Monday  Evening,  February  4,  1889- 

[Reported  by  G.  H.  Hawes,  320  Sansome  Street,  S.  F.] 

The  meeting  opened  with  singing  of  hymn  162, — 
"  My  hope  is  built  on  nothing  less 
Tkan  Jesus'  blood  and  righteousness." 

Mr.  Dowie  then  said:  "During  this  Mission  we  have  had  a  very  large  num- 
ber of  requests  for  prayer;  I  suppose  with  those  received  to-day,  about  five  hun- 
dred or  six  hundred  petitions  for  prayer  within  the  last  fortnight,  and  God  has 
very  graciously  answered  in  many  cases. 

"  We  are  now  at  the  ^nd  of  this  fortnight's  Mission,  but,  as  you  know,  it  is 
the  intention  of  continuing  at  the  close  of  this  week  for  still  another  week,  but 
as  the  present  Praise  and  Testimony  Meeting  had  been  announced,  we  felt  that 
the  program  should  be  carried  out,  although  we  usually  hold  the  Praise  and 
Testimony  Meeting  at  the  end  of  a  Mission. ' 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  C  F.  Lane,  and  Mrs.  Dowie  read 
Isaiah  35 

A  Reply  to  a  False  Accusation. 

Mr.  Dowie,  after  making  certain  announcements,  said:  "Now,  beloved 
friends,  it  must  be  very  clear  to  you  that  it  is  not  advisable  that  I  should 
speak  myself  at  very  great  length,  nor  do  I  think  it  necessary,  further  than  to 
say  a  few  words  concerning  the  testimonies  about  to  be  given  by  the  scores  of 
persons  around  me  on  this  platform  who  have  been  healed  through  faith  in  Jesus. 
I  have  taken  no  pains  specially  to  get  any  person  to  testify;  I  have  invited  no 
one  individually  or  separately  to  come  and  testify.  Everyone  who  sits  upon  this 
platform  to-night  is  here  voluntarily,  and  what  they  have  to  say  is  entirely  of 
their  own  free  will.  I  do  not  dictate  a  single  word  of  their  testimony,  and  I  am 
not  responsible  for  a  single  word  they  say;  they  are  themselves  responsible  before 
God.  And  I  want  to  state  clearly,  and  so  that  no  one  will  misunderstand  me,  that  / 
have  healed  no  one,  neither  in  this  or  any  other  Mission;  those  who  have  been  healed 
have  l^een  healed  by  the  Lord.  We  give  Him  all  the  glory  and  ascribe  to  Him  all 
the  power.     *  Thine,  O  Lord,  is  the  kingdom  and  the  power  and  the  glory.  '^ 

*•  I  am  informed  that  a  public  attack  was  made  upon  the  work  in  the 
Oakland  Evening  Enquirer,  in  this  city,  by  a  Baptist  minister  named  Fleenor.  I 
have  been  told  that  person  has  said  that  many  of  those  who  testified  in  the  Oak- 
laud  Mission  held  here  before,  could  not  be  found.  There  are  none  so  blind  as 
those  who  won't  se^,  and  no  one  will  find  such  difficulties  in  finding  people  as 
th««e  that  don't  want  to  find  them.  It  has  been  a  very  remarkable  fact  that 
this  gentleman  has  failed  to  find  persons  who  are  healed,  and  yet  these  very  per- 
sons are  here  to-niglit  to  testify  to  their  perfect  healing,  and  say  that  the  state- 
ments made  in  'American  First- Fruits,'  pages  18-26,  are  true  in  every  particular, 


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and  these  are  the  statements  which  have  been  falsely  disputed  by  this  person. 
Mrs.  H.  P.  Penniman  informed  me  herself,  the  other  day,  and  her  sister,  Mrs. 
Captain  Gove,  that  they  at  once  wrote  to  the  local  paper,  the  Evening  Enquirer, 
stating  that  the  assertion  made  by  Mr.  Fleenor  concerning  her  case  was  not  true; 
and  they  also  wrote  to  the  San  Francisco  Chronicle,  stating  that  every  word  in 
'American  First-Fruits'  was  true.  But  not  a  line  of  that  letter  appeared  in  either 
paper.  This  proves  that  they  publish  falsehoods  on  purpose,  and  that  they 
desire  to  suppress  the  truth. 

Exposure  of  the  Falsehoods  of  a  Minister  and  Editor. 

"Again,  in  the  case  of  the  dear  girl,  Annie  Burkmann,  of  Oakland  (pages 
55-56  'First-Fruits'),  who  has  been  attending  most  of  our  meetings  in  this  Mission, 
but  is  unable  to  be  here  to-night,  it  was  stated  that  her  testimony  was  not  true. 
She  was  healed  of  blindness  in  the  left  eye,  of  fourteen  and  one-half  years'  stand- 
ing, and  she  remains  perfectly  restored,  although  Mr.  Fleenor  dared  to  deny  the 
fact.  I  took  the  pains  to  ask  Annie  Burkmann  to  go  down  to  the  office  of  the 
Oakland  Enquirer — the  paper  in  which  this  statement  was  made — and  her  friend, 
Mr.  Wilson,  and  our  Brothers  Svenson  and  Pereau,  went  down  with  her  at  my 
request,  a  few  evenings  ago.  She  showed  herself  to  the  editor,  and  he  examined 
her  and  her  friends  and  admitted  that  she  had  perfect  sight  in  the  left  eye.  '  Is 
that  so  ? ' "  said  Mr.  Dowie,  addressing  the  gentlemen  he  had  named. 

**  Yes,  sir,"  was  the  immediate  answer  of  all. 

**  And  he  took  your  names  and  addresses  and  said  he  would  contradict  the 
false  statement  made  by  Mr.  Fleenor,  in  his  columns,  but  he  never  put  a  single 
line  in  his  paper  ?  " 

"Yes,  sir." 

*'  You  will  all  see,  then,  that  is  an  illustation  of  the  animus  of  our  mini^erial 
enemies  and  of  the  fairness  of  the  local  press.  You  see  I  don't  complain  with- 
out just  reason  concerning  the  absolute  unfairness  of  the  local  press  and  of  the 
San  Franciscan  press,  in  this  matter;  they  persistently  publish  falsehoods,  and 
never  published  a  truth  when  they  got  it.  * 

**  There  are  a  number  here  who  were 

Healed  in  the  Last  Mission  in  Oakland, 

and  who  will  give  their  viva  voce  testimony;  you  will  hear  the  living  voices  of 
those  who  spoke  on  the  last  occasion  and  were  healed. 

"1  am  told  that  the  case  of  Mrs.  S.  Ransome,  mentioned  in  the  pamphlet 
as  residing  at  No.  9  Fourteenth  Street,  is  a  mistake,  and  that  it  should  be  709. 
That  is  just  a  little  mistake  in  transcribing,  possibly  not  the  reporter's,  it  miglit 
be  the  printer's,  and  it  escaped  correction  in  reading  the  proofs.  She  says  it 
is  stated  in  Mr.  Fleenor's  paper  that  she  can't  be  found.  If  he  had  asked  us,  we 
would  have  helped  him  to  find  her. 

**  This  lady  was  healed  of  heart  disease,  and  perhaps  it  might  be  well  for  her 
to  just  repeat  her  testimony  as  to  whether  she  retains  her  healing.  Her  caso  is 
given  on  page  22  of  '  First- Fruits,'  and  is  headed, 

*  Instantaneous  Healing  of  Heart  Disease  Without  Human 

Touch.'" 

Mrs.  Ransomerose  from  the  platform,  and  said:  "  My  name  is  Mrs.  E.  Ran- 
some,  and  I  live  at  709  Fourteenth  Street.  I  can  be  found  there.  I  stand  here  as 
a  witness  for  Jesus.  I  came  to  the  First  Presbyterian  Chtirch  when  Mr.  Dowie 
was  here  before,  and  I  took  about  the  third  seat  from  the  stand;  I  had  not  spoken 
to  any  person,  and  no  one  had  spoken  to  me.  But  when  he  offered  up  prayer, 
I  prayed  to  the  Lord  that  if  there  was  anything  wrong  with  my  heart  that  it 
might  be  put  right  (for  I  had  an  idea  that  it  was  not  right),  and  I  prayed  ear- 
nestly that'  He  would  put  my  heart  right.  Then  all  at  once  such  a  throbbing  took 
place  that  I  thought  I  must  cry  out  for  help;  it  was  all  I  could  do  to  smother  it. 
But  all  at  once  when  Mr.  Dov.'ie  stopped  praying,  it  stopped.  I  can  praise  God 
that  I  have  been  healed  and  been  kept  ever  since.     I    feel  almost  young  again. 


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["  Thank  the  Lord,"  from  the  audience.]  I  thank  God  and  no  one  else;  for  Mr. 
l)owie  never  put  his  hands  on  nie,  never  spoke  to  me,  nor  touched  me.  To  God 
I  give  all  the  praise.  If  anyone  wants  my  testimony  they  can  have  it  either  in 
private  or  public." 

Mr.  Dowie  asked:  "  Were  you  suflFering  a  long  time  from  heart  disease?" 

"  Yes,  sir.  Many  times  I  had  considerable  trouble  in  going  up  a  flight  of 
stairs. " 

**  And  that  had  been  quite  a  number  of  years?  " 

**  Yes,  quite  a  number. " 

"And  you  have  been  in  perfect  health  ever  since  last  August?  " 

•'Yes,  sir." 

"  Healing  of  Hip  Disease  of  Ten  Years'  Standing."— Page  22. 

Mr.  Dowie  then  said:  "Miss  Josie  Colienour  has  testified  publicly  that 
her  testimony  is  correct.  I  believe  in  that  case  the  Enquirer  did  publish  what 
she  said.'' 

[A  lady  in  the  back  of  the  audience,  named  Mrs.  Thompson,  here  spoke  up 
and  said,  "  She  is  at  Woodland  at  present.  I  had  a  long  talk  with  her  mother 
and  she  told  me  the  girl  had  spinal  and  hip  disease,  and  ever  since  you  prayed  for 
her  she  has  not  had  one  particle  of  it.     Before  that  she  could  not  sleep  at  night.  "1 

Mr.  Dowie  said,  "  Mrs.  Thompson,  of  Orange  Street,  Oakland,  once  a  mem- 
J)er  of  Mr.  Fleenor's  Church,  confirms  the  testimony." 

**  Healing  of  an  Eight  Years'    Decrepit  African  Sister."— 

Page  54. 

Mr.  Dowie  then  called  upon  Mrs.  Williams,  a  colored  lady,  to  confirm  her 
previous  testimony,  saying:  *'  Dear  old  aunty  is  young  again.  What  is  your  ad- 
dress, aunty? " 

"  459  Sixth  Street,  near  Broadway,  Oakland." 

Mr.  Dowie — "She  testified  in  the  Mission  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  that 
she  was  instantaneously  healed  of  long-continued  trouble.  I  believe  she  is  known 
to  hundreds  of  persons  in  Oakland  as  one  who  was  almost  an  imbecile,  unable  to 
earn  her  living  or  do  anything  for  herself.  She  tells  us  she  was  instantaneously 
healed." 

Mrs.  Williams  said:  **  Stand  up  for  Jesus.  I  can  say  that  I  was  like  the 
woman  that  is  spoken  of  in  the  Scripture  that  had  an  affliction,  I  think  for  eight- 
een years,  and  Jesus  loosed  her  from  the  bondage  of  Satan.  I  have  been  troubled 
from  the  crown  of  my  head  to  the  soles  of  my  feet  with  neuralgia,  and  I  couldn't 
wear  shoes  on  my  feet.  The  doctor  that  attended  me  if  he  were  here  would  testify, 
but  the  night  I  testified  in  San  Francisco  he  died. 

"The  first  time  I  heard  this  gentleman,  Dr.  Dowie,  was  in  San  Francisco, 
I  prayed  that  this  man  of  God  might  come  over  to  Oakland.  I  put  such- 
trust  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  that  I  said  there  would  not  be  any  man  or  woman 
get  any  relief  in  Oakland  if  I  didn't.  Mr.  Dowie  came  and  I  didn't  know  it. 
Then  somebody  said,  *  Mr.  Dowie  is  here.'  And  I  said,  *  Where  is  he?'  *  At  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church,  corner  Fourteenth  and  Franklin  Streets, '  they  said. 

"I  went  and  dressed  myself,  and  after  a  hard  time  walking  I  got  there,  and 
knelt  down  and  prayed,  and  Mr.  Dowie  came  beside  me  where  I  was,  and  he  laid 
hands  upon  me.  The  next  morning  I  got  up  and  I  did  what  I  have  not  done  for 
eight  years;  I  went  out  and  earned  my  dollar  and  a  half,  washing.  I-  said  I 
would  go  in  faith  in  the  Almighty  and  His  Son  Jesus  Christ,  I  mean  to  testify 
for  Him  like  Moses  of  old.  ["  Hallelujah  !"  from  the  audience.]  I  did  my  work; 
was  there  at  half  past  six  and  never  stopped  till  nearly  six  at  night,  and  the  lady 
said,  *  Auntie,  ain't  you  tired?"  *  No,  ma'am,  I  am  working  on  the  strength  of 
Jesus  Christ,'  I  said.  I  did  my  work  and  I  came  home  like  a  little  child,  tickled 
to  death,  and  showed  my  dollar  and  a  half.  *  Holy  Moses,  see  what  I  can  do; 
I  have  earned  a  dollar  and  a  half,'  I  said.     I  had  been  sick  for  eight  years. 

"  Brothers  and  sisters,  I  have  one  request  to  make,  Don't  fight  this  servant 
of  God,  for  the  arm  of  Jehovah  has  come  down  upon  him.     God  has  said,  'Touch 


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not  my  anointed  and  do  thou  my  prophets  no  harm.'  No,  *  it  were  better  for 
you.  that  a  mill-stone  was  hanged  around  your  neck  and  you  were  cast  into  the 
depths  of  the  sea,  than  that  you  should  trouble  one  of  these  little  ones.'  Re- 
member when  you  are  troubling  God's  people  you  are  troubling  the  great  Jehovah. 
But  I  must  sit  down,  for  I  would  talk  here  all  night  if  I  didn't. " 

[The  African  lady  spoke  with  a  great  deal  of  life  and  earnestness,  and  greatly 
interested  as  well  as  amused  the  congregation.  Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  Auntie  can 
walk  as  well  as  talk,  and  is  quite  young  again."] 

"  Confirmation  of  Previous  Testimony."— Page  22. 

Mr.  Dowie  continued:  "Amongst  those  who  testified  at  the  last  Mission  was 
Miss  Wilcox,  who  had  been  ill  for  about  twenty  years  of  various  infirmities.  She 
<;ame  into  the  meeting  on  crutches;  laid  down  her  crutches  when  she  laid  down 
her  sins,  and  she  walked  away  at  once  perfectly  free,  and  she  is  here  again  to-night 
to  testify.  Some  folks  can't  find  her,  m©  have  found  her  for  them.  Will  you  give 
lis  your  present  address  ?  " 

Miss  Wilcox  said:  "  743  Minna  Street,  but  I  cannot  be  found  there  in  the 
day-time;  I  can  be  more  readily  found  at  1237|  Market  Street,  any  evening  of 
the  week." 

"Now,  dear  sister,  just  briefly  tell  what  the  Lord  has  done  for  you,  and  how 
He  has  kept  you.  We  want  to  confirm  previous  testimony  first  of  all.  It  is 
given  in  the  pamphlet,  on  page  22." 

Miss  Wilcox  then  said:  "AH  I  have  to  say  is  to  the  glory  of  God  and  the 
praise  of  his  Son  Jesus.  I  was  twenty-eight  years  a  sufferer.  I  was  given  up  by 
physicians  in  Iowa,  Illinois,  Kansas,  and  also  in  California.  I  was  troubled  with 
various  diseases.  I  received  an  injury  when  I  was  eight  years  old  which  has  fol- 
lowed me  all  my  life  until  seven  months  ago.  Praise  the  Lord.  For  four  years 
and  four  months,  I  might  say,  I  was  on  crutches,  and  when  I  was  not  on  crutches 
I  was  in  bed.  I  was  on  my  crutches  two  years,  eleven  months,  and  four  days. 
The  Lord  has  healed  me  and  given  me  strength  to  walk.  I  received  strength  to 
walk  at  the  end  of  the  third  lecture  I  heard  Brother  Dowie  deliver,  through  his 
prayers  and  my  own;  I  threw  myself  wholly  on  the  Lord  and  asked  Him  to  make 
me  perfect,  and  He  has  done  so.  He  is  not  only  able  to  heal  our  bodies,  but  to 
keep  us  healed,  and  to  keep  us  under  all  circumstances.  Praise  His  name  for 
ivhat  he  has  done  for  me. " 

"  Restoration  of  Hearing  of  One  Who  Had  Been  Totally- 
Deaf  in  Right  Ear  for  Eight  Years-"— Page  22. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  **Mr.  Kudens  testified  in  the  last  Mission,  and  he  is  one  of 
those  that  '  can't  be  found.*  He  lives  at  No.  11  Telegraph  Place,  San  Francisco. 
He  was  here  this  afternoon  and  confirmed  his  testimony." 

Mr.  Rudens  was  not  present,  but  another  party  said:  **  I  had  a  talk  with 
him  last  night  and  he  said  his  healing  remained  as  perfect  as  at  the  time  he  re- 
■ceived  it. " 

"  Healing  of  a  Minister  from  Dyspepsia  of  Eight  Years."— 

Page  23. 

**  I  want  two  or  three  more  of  these  cases;  is  the  Rev.  Mr.  Green  present? 
He  is  pastor  of  a  German  church  in  this  city. " 

[Mr.  Green  was  not  present,  but  a  gentleman  in  the  audience  spoke  up  and 
said  he  lived  in  the  same  house  with  him  and  he  knew  he  was  perfectly  healed. 
Mr.  Dowie  then  said  that  Mr.  Green  had  been  attending  the  present  Mission,  and 
bad  said  his  healing  remained  the  same  as  was  stated  in  the  pamphlet.] 

**  Healing  of  Eczema  from  Birth  in  a  Little  Boy."— Page  24. 

Mrs.  Stacy  testified  concerning  her  little  boy;  she  says  that  the  testimony 
given  on  page  24  of  this  pamphlet  is  exactly  correct. 

''*'  Healing  of  Five  Years'  Internal  Troubles- "-Pages  24  and  59. 

**  Mrs.  Margarita  Johnson,  do  you  confirm  the  testimony  given  in  this  pam- 
phlet?" 


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"Yes,  air.'* 

•'  This  is  a  very  remarkable  case.     She  was  sick  for  five  years  and  had 
ten  doctors,  and  was  in  a  very  bad  condition.     Will  you  now  kindly  confirm  your 
previous  testimony,  Mrs.  Johnson  ?  " 

Mrs.  Johnson  said:  **  I  have  removed  from  1068  Twenty-fourth  Street  to  1723 
Eighth  Street.  I  want  to  say  the  Lord  is  my  Healer,  first  my  Saviour  and  then 
my  Healer.  I  was  sick  for  six  years  with  internal  diseases,  and  I  seen  many 
doctors  in  Minneapolis  and  St.  Paul.  Then  my  friends  tell  me  I  better  change 
climate,  and  three  years  ago  I  came  out  here;  but  everything  failed.  I  saw  many 
doctors,  but  there  seemed  to  be  no  hope  for  me.  For  three  months  before  I  see 
Mr.  Dowie,  I  could  hardly  leave  my  bed;  I  lose  my  appetite  and  I  could  hardly 
work  at  all.  Mr.  Dowie  said  the  Lord  is  willing  to  heal  as  well  as  to  save.  I 
"felt  I  wanted  to  be  free  from  my  sickness,  and  Mr.  Dowie  laid  his  hands  upon  me 
and  I  was  healed;  that  was  on  the  18th  of  July;  then  I  felt  my  disease 
again  on  the  23d  of  July,  and  I  ask  God  to  help  me  that  I  could  rise  up  again; 
and  in  the  night  at  twelve  o'clock  I  felt  the  Lord  healed  me,  and  I  felt  a  beautiful 
blessing,  and  I  went  to  sleep;  and  while  I  was  lying  there  I  heard  a  voice,  *  Satan 
desired  to  have  you,  but  I  have  prayed  for  thee  that  thy  faith  fail  not.'  I  ask 
the  Lord  that  nothing  should  happen  to  me  again.  I  felt  free  from  disease,  but  I 
felt  as  if  I  was  bound  with  a  chain  around  my  feet,  and  as  though  I  could  hardly 
walk.  And  I  asked  the  Lord  to  help  me  and  that  I  should  be  relieved.  Then  I 
got  a  bad  cold  and  I  lay  sick  agaim.  I  opened  the  Bible,  and  I  read,  'Ask  and  it 
shall  be  given ;  knock  and  it  shall  be  opened  unto  you. '  '  I  'asked  tlie  Lord  to 
heal  me  perfectly,  to  make  me  whole,  spirit,  soul  and  body.  I  was  lying  there  and 
I  heard  him  say,  'Peace,  be  still; '  and  I  felt  just  like  someone  touched  me.  I 
felt  perfectly  free,  and  He  seemed  to  be  so  close  I  wanted  to  touch  Him,  and  I  put 
out  my  hand  and  said,  *  Lord,  can  I  touch  you  ? '  And  I  felt  something  like  a 
stream  pour  all  over  me,  and  I  felt  so  happy ;  seemed  as  though  I  didn't  have  the 
game  body  I  used  to  have;  and  He  has  kept  me  ever  since.  I  give  God  all  the 
glory,  and  I  am  thankful  that  Mr.  Dowie  came  here."  [**  Ameus"  from  the  au- 
dience, and  "  Praise  the  Lord,"  from  Mr.  Dowie.] 

"Healing  of  Ten  Years'  Chronic  Neuralgia  and  Spinal  Injury." 

60. 


Mrs.  Pereau,  Bristol  St.,  West  Berkeley,  then  testified:  **I  am  glad  to  be 
able  to  glorify  the  Lord.  I  was  a  great  sufferer  from  neuralgia  for  ten  years;  it 
had  become  chronic.  It  affected  my  spine  and  I  was  not  able  to  lay  on  my  back. 
Dr.  Selfridge  told  me  there  was  no  cure  for  me.  So  I  suffered  on  until  Dr.  Dowie 
held  meetings  at  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Oakland,  and  I  went  there  and 
heard  the  teaching.  I  took  Jesus  as  my  healer,  and,  the  Lord  be  praised,  I  am 
healed  ever  since. " 

Healing  of  Cancer  in  the  Tongue. 

Dr.  Dowie  said:  *'  There  was  a  very  remarkable  healing  of  cancer  in  the  last 
Mission  held  in  Oakland,  and  I  shall  ask  the  lady  to  give  her  testimony;  her 
testimony  was  not  given  publicly  in  Oakland,  but  she  gave  her  testimony  at  the 
Central  Presbyterian  Church  in  San  Francisco  on  December  23d  last.  The  lady 
had  a  cancer  in  her  tongue;  I  laid  hands  upon  her  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
in  this  city.  I  have  examined  her  tongue  (and  any  physician  can  do  so)  and  it  is 
perfectly  well.  The  lady  says  she  is  in  perfect  health.  I  would  like  Mrs.  King 
to  give  her  testimony." 

Mrs.  King  said:  **  I  reside  at  1265  Center  Street,  Oakland.  I  am  glad  to- 
night to  testify  to  the  power  of  Jesus.  ["Thank  God,"  from  Mr.  Dowie.]  He 
can  do  to-day  just  as  much  as  He  did  eighteen  hundred  years  ago.  ["Hallelujah'* 
from  the  audience.]  I  suffered  with  a  cancer  on  my  tongue  for  five  years.  The 
last  Mission,  through  the  teaching  of  Bro.  Dowie,  I  accepted  the  healing  power, 
and  He  has  healed  me,  spirit,  soul  and  body.  While  I  have  use  of  this  tongue 
I  shall  give  Him  the  prais^.  ["Hallelujah"  and  "Amen"  from  the  people.]  It  is 
a  great  thing  to  stand  and  testify  to  this  power,  and  it  is  what  we  are  here  for;  to 
stand  up  for  Jesus,  and  Him  only.     I  give  God  all  glory  and  praise. 


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*•  And  there  are  other  things;  my  eyes  are  better;  I  have  new  sight  in  Jesus; 
new  hearing.  Praise  his  name  to-night.  He  wants  no  sickness,  no  cancers,  no 
disease  there.  Oh,  what  a  glorious  thing  it  is  to  be  a  child  of  God  !  I  am  nearer 
to-night  to  Him  than  I  ever  was  in  my  life. 

"Brethren,  do  not  persecute  this  blessed  work.  Oh,  Jesus  is  here  to-night! 
Give  Him  all  the  glory.  [The  testimony  of  this  lady  created  great  interest  and 
enthusiasm,  and  there  were  constant  expressions  of  approval  from  the  audience.] 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "May  I  ask  you  the  names  of  the  doctors  who  diagnosed 
and  treated  your  case  ?  " 

**Dr.  Darrin,  he  attended  me  two  months;  then  Dr.  Miller,  who  is  our  family 
physician;  then  Dr.  Dohrman,  and  Dr.  Sienna." 

"And  they  all  pronounced  it  cancer  ?  " 

"Yes,  sir." 

"  And  now  you  are  perfectly  free  ?  " 

"I  am  perfectly  free." 

"We  will  praise  the  Lord  for  that.  I  think  we  might  have  a  Song  of 
Praise.     Let  us  sing,  'AH  hail  the  power  of  Jesus'  name.'  " 

[The  entire  congregation  seemed  to  burst  instantly  into  song,  and  all  seemed 
imbued  with  enthusiasm  and  spirit.] 

End  of  Confirmation  of  Oakland  Testimonies. 

Mr.  Dowie  then  said:  "I  don't  think  you  wish  to  have  any  more  confirma- 
tion of  previous  testimony  given  in  the  last  Oakland  Mission.  Are  you  all  satis- 
fied? [Cries  of  "  Yes,  yes. "]  Very  well.  These  living  witnesses  and  their  em- 
phatic testimonies  are  God's  answer  to  our  false  accusers,  and  I  will  not  waste 
another  word  upon  them. " 

Healings  During  the  Present  Mission. 

"  I  think  now  we  will  take  up  some  new  healings  of  this  Mission;  that  will 
come  down  very  close.  The  first  of  these  was  that  of  a  dear  sister  who  was 
saved  in  this  Mission.  She  is  quite  competent  to  tell  her  own  story.  I  will 
simply  introduce  Miss  Pereau,  1212  Seventh  St.  Miss  Pereau  is  a  public  school 
teacher  in  your  city;  a  teacher  in  the  Cole  School,  I  think.  She  had  been  com- 
pelled to  leave  scholastic  duties  on  account  of  the  state  of  her  health,  but  is  now 
entirely  healed,  and  will  shortly  return  to  her  duties. " 

Remarkable  Instantaneous  Healing  of  a  Lady  Teacher. 

Miss  Pereau,  an  intelligent  young  lady,  who  has  lived  nearly  if  not  all  of  her 
life  in  Oakland,  read  her  testimony,  which  was  as  follows: — 

"For  the  past  fourteen  months  I  have  been  an  intense  sufiferer  from  severe 
stomach  disorder,  which  rendered  me  totally  unfit  to  perform  my  duties  as  teacher 
in  the  public  schools  of  this  city,  and  compelled  me  to  obtain,  at  the  opening  of 
the  present  school  term,  a  leave  of  absence  from  the  Board  of  Education. 

"  I  was  unable  to  digest  or  assimilate  any  food,  with  the  exception  of  a  small 
quantity  of  bread  and  milk,  and  at  times  suffered  acutely  from  the  effects  of  that. 

"I  consulted  some  of  the  best  physicians  in  regard  to  my  case,  and  tried 
many  compositions  in  the  form  of  patent  medicines,  but  was  unable  to  obtain 
even  temporary  relief.  Our  family  physician.  Dr.  R.  L.  Hill,  of  this  city,  pro- 
nounced my  case  nervous  prostration  of  the  Ipbiing  of  the  stomach,  produced  from 
overwork. 

"Last  Monday  I  sought  and  found  Jesus  as  my  Saviour;  and  on  Thursday 
last,  in  Dr.  Dowie's  meeting,  I  accepted  Him  as  my  Divine  Healer.  Dr.  Dowie 
laid  hands  on  me  that  afternoon,  and  bade  me  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  to  eat  a 
good  meal,  which  I  did  a  few  hours  later.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie  being  eye-witnesses, 
as  they  dined  at  the  same  table.  I  ate  turkey,  vegetables,  peaches  and  cream, 
cake,  and  an  orange,  from  all  of  which  I  felt  no  ill  effects.  I  ate  a  hearty  break- 
fast the  following  morning,  and  have  been  eating  my  food  heartily  ever  since.  / 
was  imtantaneously  and  ^perfectly  healed,  and  by  the  grace  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour 
Jesus  Christ  I  will  remain  so."  ["Amen,"  "The  Lord  bless  you,"  etc.,  from  the 
4tudienee.] 


Ill 

Mr.  Dowiesaid:  "This  lady  is  well  known  in  connection  with  the  public 
schools  of  this  city,  and  the  case  was  just  as  she  says;  it  was  instantaneous  heal- 
ing; it  was  perfect;  and  it  has  every  appearance  of  being  permanent.  She  was 
healed  last  Thursday  night;  it  is  now  Monday.  I  had  promised  to  dine  with  her 
brother  at  West  Berkeley  that  night,  and  she  was  there.  We  found  a  very  nice 
dinner  waiting  for  us.  I  said  to  her,  *  Now  you  are  healed.  In  the  name  of  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  you  are  to  eat  a  good  dinner. ' 

'• '  Why,'  she  said,  *  I  have  only  eaten  bread  and  milk,  and  not  even  able  to 
take  that  sometimes,  for  fourteen  months.' 

"  I  said,  *  You  must  eat  a  good  dinner  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.' 
Her  brother  carved  for  her  the  turkey,  and  I  said,  *Now  eat.'  She  looked  at 
me,  but  she  went  at  it.  [Laughter.]  It  was  quite  pleasant  to  look  at  her;  she 
ate  a  splendid  dinner;  she  took  peaches  and  cream — the  cream  was  nice  and  rich; 
she  ate  bread  and  butter,  and  partook  freely  of  things  she  could  not  touch  before. 
The  next  morning  she  ate  a  hearty  breakfast  with  the  family;  I  saw  her  eat  eggs 
and  drink  coflfee.  This  dear  young  lady  has  friends  who  know  all  about  her  case; 
I  see  two  or  three  of  her  relatives  present.  We  are  very  glad  to  have  this  wit- 
ness; for  she  is  an  illustration  of  how  Salvation  and  Healing  follow  each  other; 
and  her  decision  is  leading  many  to  Christ. 

A  Representative  from  San  Jose. 

•'A  dear  sister  has  come  to  us  from  San  Jose,  who  was  healed  down  there  only 
a  few  weeks  ago,  and  her  healing  is  rather  remarkable.  She  brings  tidings  from 
the  San  Jose  Branch  of  the  Association,  which  is  composed  of  over  one  hundred 
members.  They  meet  every  week  in  the  parlors  of  the  First  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church,  and  our  dear  friend  and  brother,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Jewell,  is  a  warm 
helper  in  the  Association.  There  are  a  number  of  very  earnest  friends  there.  I 
want  to  give  her  an  opportunity  to-night  to  tell  of  her  own  healing  and  of  the 
healing  of  others  whose  cases  are  well  known  and  reported  in  this  book. " 

Healing  of  Twenty  Years'  Heart  Disease  and  Other  Troubles. 

The  lady  referred  to  was  Mrs.  Hatfield,  residing  at  No.  48  North  Third  St., 
San  Jose,  and  she  rose  from  the  platform,  and  said:  **  I  am  only  too  glad  to  tell  you 
what  Jesus  has  done  for  me.  For  twenty  years  I  suffered  from  heart  disease.  I 
had  the  leading  physicians  in  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  and  from  Omaha,  Nebraska, and 
in  Southern  California,  Anaheim,  and  in  San  Jose;  none  of  them  ever  helped  me. 
A  few  months  ago  a  physician  was  called,  and  he  did  not  think  I  could  possibly 
live  five  minutes;  he  did  not  have  time  to  give  me  medicine,  but  injected  mor-, 
phine  over  the  heart.  One  doctor  in  San  Jose  said  I  had  a  tumor  in  the  stomach, 
or  a  collection  of  water,  he  could  not  tell  which.  My  stomach  was  bloated,  and 
I  could  not  eat;  I  was  living  on  prepared  food,  and  my  food  would  not  assimilate 
without  a  great  deal  of  assistance.  I  had  neuralgia  in  my  head  nearly  all  the 
time,  and  it  affected  my  eye-sight;  I  could  not  read  fine  print  at  all,  and  specta- 
cles were  of  no  benefit;  there  seemed  to  be  a  blur  before  my  eyes.  The  best  I 
could  do  was  to  read  coarse  print  a  little  at  a  time.  I  could  not  sing  at  all.  It 
seemed  that  bloating  of  the  stomach,  or  whatever  it  was,  affected  my  singing.  I 
used  to  sing  in  the  choir,  and  I  could  not  sing  at  all,  even  at  home. 

*•  The  doctor  had  forbid  my  going  out  into  any  crowd;  said  it  was  not  safe;  I 
had  spells  when  I  would  fall  wherever  I  was.  Onetime  I  was  standing  in  the 
door  and  I  fell  right  out  on  the  ground.  I  was  afraid  to  go  to  church;  had  not 
been  for  two  months;  I  was  afraid  I  would  betaken  ill  there. 

•*  The  first  Mission  Brother  Dowie  held  in  San  Jose,  in  August  last,  I  seemed 
to  receive  a  great  deal  of  faith  from  his  teaching  that  others  could  be  healed,  but 
not  myself.  When  he  held  his  second  Mission  there  last  month,  I  had  not  been 
out  of  the  house  for  some  weeks,  only  just  a  little  ways,  but  I  prayed  to  God 
that  He  would  give  me  strength  to  go  and  hear  Brother  Dowie;  I  thought  I  would 
like  to  hear  his  teaching  once  more.  I  had  no  idea  I  would  ever  get  well.  I 
could  not  go  but  a  little  ways  before  I  would  be  all  out  of  breath,  and  my  hands 
would  shake  if  I  took  a  paper  in  them.  It  was  just  from  my  heart;  it  never  beat 
regularly  at  all. 

••It  was  four  weeks  ago  last  Sunday  I  came  home  from  the  Centella  M.  K 


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Church,  where  I  had  heard  Brother  Dowie's  teaching,  and  I  told  my  husband 
there  were  so  many  people  being  healed  I  believed  I  could  be;  *  I  am  going  to  give 
myself  up  to  Jesus  for  healing;  I  can't  live  but  a  short  time  and  I  will  trust  Jesus 
while  I  live.'  I  knelt  down  and  prayed  to  God  for  my  healing,  and  I  went  to 
sleep  and  slept  very  quietly,  which  I  had  not  done  for  weeks.  The  next  morning 
when  I  arose  I  seemed  very  strong;  I  could  walk  and  not  get  tired,  and  I  was  so 
happy.  I  said  to  my  husband,  '  God  is  going  to  heal  me;'  and  he  said,  *  You  are 
a  little  excited.'  I  said,  'No,  I  have  the  witness  within.'  I  went  to  church 
twice  that  day  and  had  to  walk  about  eight  blocks.  I  ate  a  hearty  breakfast 
that  morning.  I  attended  the  meetings  until  Sunday  evening;  I  had  company 
then  and  could  not  go.  I  retired  about  10  o'clock  and  I  was  taken  with 
a  severe  pain  in  my  stomach,  and  I  went  to  God  with  it  again.  And  as  I  prayed 
the  sinking  feeling  passed  off,  the  bloating  in  my  stomach  went  down,  and  all  at 
once  it  seemed  that  before  my  eyes  the  words  came,  *  He  giveth  His  beloved  sleep.' 
I  dropped  to  sleep  in  an  instant,  and  the  next  morning  when  I  awoke  I  was  so 
happy.  I  sprang  out  of  bed  and  I  said  to  my  husband,  *  I  am  healed;  just  look  at 
my  stomach.'  I  could  lap  my  clothes  way  over  on  my  stomach.  Now  I  can  eat, 
I  can  walk,  I  can  work,  I  can  do  anything.  Thank  God  for  what  He  has  done 
for  me. 

'*  I  don't  see  how  people  can  doubt  Jesus  when  He  has  done  so  much  for  so 
many  different  ones  in  this  part  of  the  country.  I  do  praise  His  name  for  what 
he  has  done  through  Brother  Dowie  in  our  midst. " 

"  In  San  Jose  during  the  last  Mission  there  was  a  Frenchman,  a  Mr.  Lussier, 
who  had  asthma,  and  he  had  something  seriously  the  matter  with  his  throat,  and 
lungs,  and  other  troubles.  There  had  been  a  council  of  physicians  and  they  gave 
him  no  hope  of  recovery,  and  they  had  decided  to  perform  an  operation  the  next 
morning.  A  brother  told  him  about  Brother  Dowie's  meetings  and  asked  him  to 
go  down  there,  and  he  went  and  was  healed.  In  our  meeting  the  other  night  he 
got  up  and  testified  that  he  was  now  well;  he  could  go  anywhere  and  felt  per- 
fectly well. 

'*  Then  there  was  a  sister.  Miss  Hudson,  who  attended  our  church  in  San 
Jose  (the  Baptist  Church,)  she  had  rheumatism;  she  was  so  crippled  that  it  was 
only  once  in  a  while  she  could  go  to  church,  and  then  on  crutches.  Some  of  the 
time  she  had  to  be  carried,  for  she  could  not  walk  at  all.  The  physician  said  her 
bones  were  all  turning  to  chalk.  She  could  not  move  her  arm  up  at  all.  I  saw 
her  one  day  go  into  Brother  Dowie's  meeting  on  crutches,  and  I  saw  her  come  out 
walking  without  them,  and  she  is  walking  now.  I  saw  her  just  before  I  came  up, 
and  she  was  walking  all  around,  goes  to  church,  and  she  seems  perfectly  well — 
only  she  can't  run,  as  I  can,  for  my  bones  have  not  turned  to  chalk.  But  she 
is  getting  strong  and  improving  fast. 

"Then  there  was  Brother  Lathwesen.  He  had  a  cancer  in  the  stomach, 
heart  disease  and  spinal  troubles.  He  was  shaking  all  over,  his  arms  would  go 
this  way  [indicating],  and  his  foot  would  go  that.  He  was  the  worst-looking 
object  I  ever  saw.  I  thought  he  looked  more  like  a  mummy  than  anything  else, 
and  I  said  to  myself  when  he  came  into  Dr.  Dowie's  meeting  last  August,  '  What 
will  come  next  ? '  He  was  so  bad  it  didn't  seem  possible  that  anything  could  be 
done  for  him.  He  came  out  of  that  meeting  well,  and  is  well  now.  He  attends 
the  meetings  down  there  now,  and  he  can  run  just  as  I  can.  He  is  perfectly 
well.  I  saw  him  only  the  other  night.  For  thirty  years  he  had  suffered  in  this 
way." 

Mr.  Dowie  remarked:  *'You  tell  me  that  you  bring  greetings  from  a  great 
many  healed." 

"Yes,  sir.  The  last  day  you  laid  hands  on  sixty-one,  I  believe,  I  don't  know 
how  many  of  those  were  healed,  but  there  were  a  great  many  healed  in  their  eye- 
sight and  other  troubles. 

"  I  am  only  too  glad  to  bring  the  news  from  the  Association  in  San  Jose,  and 
to  say  in  regard  to  myself  that  I  can  see,  and  sing,  and  run,  and  do  anything,  for 
.  all  which  I  give  God  the  glory." 


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Restoration  of  the  Sight  of  the  Left  Eye   of  a  Twenty-Six- 
Year-Old  Lady,  Which  Had  Been  Blind  from  Birth. 

There  is  a  remarkable  healing  in  this  Mission,  which  I  am  very  thankful 
to  be  able  to  present  to  the  glory  of  God.  It  is  this  little  lady  here  whose  name 
is  Ada  Aspengren.  She  told  us  her  left  eye  was  totally  blind  from  birth.  She 
is  twenty-six  years  old;  she  does  not  mind  my  telling  her  age,  and  it  wouldn't 
matter  if  she  did.  I  had  the  joy  of  seeing  her  give  herself  fully  to  the  Lor^.  I 
then  laid  hands  upon  her  and  prayed.  The  left  ear  was  affected,  and  the  left  side 
of  her  head  seemed  to  be  involved.  I  saw  there  was  an  obscuration  upon  the  left 
eye,  which  was  quite  blind,  but  the  film  has  entirely  passed  away.  Any  persoa 
looking  at  her  eyes  would  only  see  that  the  pupil  of  the  left  eye  is  a  little  more 
dilated  than  the  other.  She  can  cover  the  right  eye  up  and  see  with  the  left  one 
very  well.  I  will  just  ask  her  to  close  her  right  and  tell  the  time  indicated  by  my 
watch,  which  has  stopped,  I  find.  [The  lady  did  so,  looked  at  watch,  and 
promptly  replied,  "Half  past  four."] 

**  That  is  right.  That  eye  was  totally  blind,  and  T  know  it,  because  I  tested 
her.  When  she  closed  her  right  eye  she  could  not  see  anything,  she  could  not 
tell  whether  I  was  holding  up  a  piece  of  white  paper  or  black  cloth,  she  could 
not  tell  me  anything  about  any  object  I  held  up.  Now  she  can  readily  tell  any 
object." 

The  young  lady  rose  from  the  platform  and  said:  "  I  am  so  thankful  to  the 
Lord  that  He  opens  my  eye,  when  I  heard  the  teaching  of  Brother  Dowie.  I  was 
born  blind  in  my  left  eye  and  deaf  in  my  left  ear.  I  bless  the  Lord  I  can  see 
now  and  I  can  hear.  I  shut  my  right  eye  and  I  can  see  you  all  sitting  here  in  the 
seats,  and  I  am  so  thankful  to  the  Lord.  I  cannot  speak  very  good  English,  so  I 
can't  say  very  much." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  You  are  doing  very  well."  [Responses  of  "Hallelujah," 
from  the  audience.] 

She  continued:  **I  praise  the  Lord  for  everything  He  has  done  for  me.  He 
bless  me  a  great  deal.     I  can  hear  pretty  well  now  in  that  left  ear." 

[Mr.  Dowie  stood  off  at  some  distance,  and  in  a  moderate  tone  said,  "God  is 
love,"  and  she  immediately  repeated  it  after  him,  having  the  right  ear  closed.] 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  She  can  both  see  and  hear,  and  we  cannot  add  very  much 
to  what  has  been  shown  and  said.     I  am  very  grateful  for  the  blessing." 

Healing  of  Serious  Internal  Trouble  of  Three  Years. 

Mrs.  Stafford,  of  Oakville,  near  Toronto,  Canada,  rose  and  testified.  This 
lady  spoke  so  low  the  reporter  could  catch  only  a  few  words;  Mr.  Dowie,  realizing 
she  could  not  be  heard,  said  when  she  closed:  "  This  sister  said  that  for  three 
years  she  had  a  very  serious  malady.  She  came  to  this  State  to  see  if  she  could 
get  any  relief.  She  was  attending  our  meetings  and  became  violently  ill;  then 
her  dear  sister  sitting  by  her  side  came  and  told  me  that  she  feared  her  sister  was 
dying.  But  she  had  received  the  doctrine  and  would  not  take  any  medicine;  she 
wanted  me  to  go  and  see  her,  and  I  did  so,  and  laid  hands  upon  her,  and  she 
received  the  healing  instantly,  and  was  so  well  she  was  able  to  come  to  the  meet- 
ing that  afternoon,  and  has  been  coming  ever  since." 

Healing  of  Tumor,  Dropsy,  Etc. 

"  I  would  like  to  have  her  sister  say  a  few  words.  Miss  Black,  of  Rockford 
near  Chicago,  111."  [This  lady  also  spoke  low,  and  it  was  difficult  to  hear  all 
she  said.] 

"  I  have  been  attended  by  a  Mi-s.  Dr.  Wilson.  She  told  me  she  thought  she 
could  help  me.  My  trouble  was  tumor.  I  came  to  Oakland  the  1st  of  July. 
Staid  until  the  26th  of  September,  when  we  went  to  Oregon;  staid  till  December, 
and  then  came  back.  I  was  some  better,  but  had  dropsy.  She  told  me  she  could 
help  me.  I  could  scarcely  walk,  and  it  seemed  as  though  something  came  up  in 
my  throat  and  choked  me.  I  went  to  Mrs.  Murphy  and  she  gave  me  remedies. 
I  took  the  remedies  two  days,  and  then  came  down  to  Dr.  Dowie 's  meetings,  and 
was  healed.  God  is  my  healer. 
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"On  last  Saturday  afternoon  my  sister  was  healed.  The  doctor  laid  hands 
upon  her  and  she  received  healing. 

"  The  dropsy  is  all  gone;  I  have  no  symptoms  of  it  now.  And  the  choking  is 
all  gone." 

Restoration  of  Sight  After  Twelve  Years'  Blindness. 

Mr.  Dowie  said : '  'I  wish  to  mention  a  case  of  great  interest  in  this  neighborhood, 
that  of  Mrs.  Castro,  the  wife  of  a  Spanish  gentleman,  Don  Victor  Castro,  of  San 
Pablo  Ranch,  near  Berkeley.  She  is  well  known  in  this  whole  countrji-side,  And 
is  here  to-night;  has  been  attending  this  Mission  with  her  dear  husband,  who  is 
perhaps  'the  oldest  inhabitant'  of  California,  since  he  was  born  nearly  seventy 
years  ago  at  the  Presidio,  near  the  Golden  Gate,  long  before  this  city  had  any 
existence,  and  before  the  stars  and  stripes  waved  over  this  State. 

*  'Mrs,  Castro  was  thrown  from  her  carriage  about  twelve  years  ago  and  became 
blind  in  consequence.  She  suflFered  also  from  rheumatism.  She  has  asked  me  to- 
night to  speak  for  her,  and  has  said  she  would  answer  my  questions  which  I 
might  put  to  her. 

"She  came  to  the  Mission  held  in  the  Grand  Opera  House  in  October  and  No- 
vember last.  I  had  the  joy  of  seeing  this  lady,  then  quite  blind,  standing  up  in 
the  Opera  House  amongst  those  who  were  seeking  a  perfect  salvation  in  Christ, 
and  she  gave  herself  to  the  Lord  fully.  A  day  or  two  afterwards  I  had  the  privi- 
lege of  seeing  her  in  my  private  rooms.  I  laid  hands  upon  her  and  instantly  sight 
was  restored.  The  sight  has  been  increasing  steadily  since.  And  I  think  I  am 
right  in  saying  that  the  rheumatism  has  all  gone? " 

"Yes,  sir." 

"And  she  is  now  able  to  see.  Her  friend,  Mrs.  Dr.  Smith,  of  1002  Adeline 
Street,  Oakland,  who  sits  by  her  side,  just  told  me  that  Mrs.  Castro  said,  'What 
beautiful  wall  paper!'  as  she  went  by  one  of  the  stores  to-day.  I  will  just  ask 
Mrs.  Castro  to  stand  and  confirm  this  testimony,  that  her  sight  is  now  restored." 

The  lady  did  so,  saying,  "Yes,  thank  God." 

"I  think  Dr.  Smith  knew  the  case?  '* 

Dr.  Smith  replied,  "I  do." 

"And  you  know  she  can  see  ?  " 

"Yes,  sir.  Many  times  she  has  passed  her  hands  over  my  wife's  face  when 
visiting  her,  and  said,  *I  would  like  to  be  able  to  see  you,'  and  now  she  can — I 
KNOW  SHE  CAN." 

"  I  may  say  that  this  striking  case  has  led  to  many  happy  results.  I  pray 
God  just  to  perfect  our  sister.  The  sight  is  increasing  steadily.  The  disease  was 
one  that  oculists  could  not  touch.     1  think,  doctor,  I  am  correct  in  saying  this  ?  " 

"  Yes,  sir,"  replied  Dr.  Smith. 

"  I  think  she  was  one  of  your  patients  ?  "  observed  Mr.  Dowie. 

Dr.  Smith  replied,   "I  was  the  family  physician." 

"  We  give  God  all  the  glory,"  said  Mr.  Dowie,  "and  pray  that  this  interesting 
case  may  have  far-reaching  results,  and  lead  many  to  find  in  Christ  their  all,  as 
our  sister  does. " 

Instantaneous     Restoration    of    Defective    Sight    without 

Human  Touch. 

Mrs.  Wixom,  of  1778  Eighth  Street,  Oakland,  said:  "Dear  friends,  it  rejoices 
my  heart  to-night  to  be  able  to  say  a  word  in  praise  of  my  Redeemer.  Brother 
Dowie  knows  nothing  of  the  healing  which  I  am  referring  to.  It  occurred  about 
two  weeks  ago.  I  attended  a  meeting  where  this  sister,  Mrs.  Burlingame,  was  in 
charge,  who  was  also  healed  in  Dr.  Dowie's  Mission,  and  she  asked  several  to 
read  the  Scripture  lesson,  and  they  all  refused,  then  she  came  to  me.  To  refuse 
such  a  request  is  something  I  never  did,  to  refuse  to  do  anything  for  God.  I  sat 
beside  the  sister  and  she  handed  me  the  Bible  and  asked  me  to  read  the  103d 
psalm.  I  never  thought  of  my  eyes  being  not  able  to  read  fine  print,  or  to  write 
a  letter  for  some  months.  I  had  hurt  my  eyes  sewing  on  black  dress  goods.  She 
handed  me  a  book  and  it  was  a  blank;  I  could  scarcely  see  anything.  I  thought 
to  myself.  What  shall  I  do?  tell  the  sister  I  can't  read  ?    Then  it  came  to  me  to  ask 


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the  Lord  to  give  me  my  sight.  I  knelt  in  prayer  and  the  book  was  open  before 
me,  and  I  asked  the  Lord  to  give  me  my  sight,  and  that  I  might  read  His  word 
in  the  Spirit.  We  arose  and  sung  a  hymn,  and  I  took  the  Bible  and  read  dis- 
tinctly; my  eye-sight  never  was  better.  1  had  almost  forgotten  to  tell  about  it, 
because  the  Lord  has  been  so  good  to  me  a  great  many  times. 

"On  last  evening  this  dear  sister  who  sits  by  my  side  was  at  our  house,  and  I 
picked  up  the  HeraUl  of  Holiness  and  read  aloud  about  a  case  of  Divine  Heading. 
I  held  the  paper  out  at  arm's  length  and  read  it  very  readily.  My  mother,  who 
is  present,  was  at  the  Mission  when  Sister  Burlingame  asked  me  to  read  the  Script- 
ure lesson,  and  my  mother  said,  *How  is  she  ^oing  to  read  without  glasses.' 
I  told  her,  however,  to  ask  the  Lord  to  give  me  sight,  and  He  did  so.  Praise  His 
blessed  name.  I  have  believed  in  Divine  Healing  for  twenty  years,  but  never  had 
the  joy  and  pleasure  of  hearing  the  doctrine  preached  until  Brother  Dowie  came. 
I  have  been  a  very  earnest  listener  to  the  doctrine."  [Mr.  Dowie  exclaimed, 
"Thank  God,  lam  very  much  pleased."] 

Confirmation  by  Her  Mother. 

"Where  is  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Wixom  ?  I  think  she  ought  to  give  her  testi- 
mony." 

Mrs.  Sturgis,  of  1778  Eighth  Street,  Oakland,  an  aged  lady,  rose  from  one  of 
the  side  pews  in  front,  and  said,  with  a  good  deal  of  vigor  and  earnestness:  **I 
confirm  my  daughter's  testimony.  My  testimony  is  that  the  Lord  Jesus  is  able 
to  save  spirit,  soul  and  body.  In  my  own  experience  I  have  found  it  so.  Every 
day  I  feel  I  am  created  anew  in  Christ  Jesus.  I  have  seen  the  time  when  I  was 
always  sick;  now  I  am  never  sick,  but  always  well.  ["Thank  God,"  from  Mr. 
Dowie.]  I  had  consumption,  and!  have  had  almost  everything  you  can  mention. 
Now  I  don't  know  even  weariness.  I  am  sixty-eight  years  of  age,  and  Christ  is 
my  all. 

Confirmation  of  Restoration  to  Sight  of  the  Boy  Bom  Blind- 

Mrs.  Richville,  the  mother  of  the  little  blind  boy  healed  in  the  first  San 
Francisco  Mission,  said:  "  My  little  boy  received  his  sight  on  the  4th  of  July,  and 
he  is  improving  steadily  right  along.  I  now  live  at  353  Fourth  Street,  San 
Francisco.  When  I  took  him  over  to  Berkeley  the  last  time,  he  looked  out  of  the 
window  when  we  were  on  the  train,  and  was  able  to  read  the  letters  painted  on 
the  fences — the  advertisements.  He  could  read  them  very  readily.  He  is  im- 
proving right  along.  I  give  God  the  glory.  I  feel  it  is  my  mission  on  earth  to 
tell  the  story  of  how  Jesus  gave  sight  to  my  son  bom  blind. 

"I  was  wonderfully  healed  myself.  I  was  sick  about  a  week  ago  and  I  sent 
up  for  prayers  to  the  little  Mission  on  Market  Street.  I  was  healed  in  fifteen 
minutes;  I  was  healed  perfectly  and  have  not  been  troubled  since.  I  had  rheu- 
matism laetween  the  shoulders.  I  don't  know  what  I  had  done ,to  let  the  devil  get 
such  a  hold  on  me,  but  he  let  go  pretty  quick,  when  I  left  it  all  with  Jesus." 

Healing  of  Broken  Ankle  and  Rheumatism. 

"I  live  on  Foley  Street.  Alameda.  I  give  God  the  glory.  I  was  saved  at  the 
Grand  Opera  House.  I  came  on  crutches,  suflFering  from  rheumatism  and  a  broken 
ankle,  and  I  left  my  crutches  behind  me,  and  the  liord  has  kept  me  ever  since,  and 
I  shall  always  have  Him  for  ray  great  physician." 

Healed  of  Fifteen  Years'  Sufferings. 

Mrs.  Ceroid,  823  Dolores  Street,  San  Francisco,  said:  "I  attended  three 
meetings  of  the  last  San  Francisco  Mission,  when  I  was  healed.  When  I  went 
there  I  could  hardly  lift  my  hand.  It  didn't  take  but  three  meetings  to  find  out 
Jesus  was  my  healer.  I  have  remained  perfectly  healed  ever  since,  and  I  hope  to 
continue  so.  I  feel  perfectly  thankful  and  satisfied.  I  was  fifteen  years  suffering 
■with  this  disease;  but  I  am  perfectly  Jiealed." 


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Instantaneotis  Healing  in  the  Open  Meeting. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "I  would  like  to  mention  the  case  of  a  lady  sitting  at  mjr 
right.  It  is  a  case  of  instantaneous  answer  to  prayer  under  very  serious  circum- 
stances, openly  in  the  Mission.  She  was  sitting  here  with  her  husband  on  Mon- 
day night  last  when  I  was  speaking,  and  my  attention  was  directed  to  her  at 
once,  for  I  saw  her  turn  ghastly  pale,  I  watched  her,  for  I  am  accustomed  to 
see  quickly  signs  of  anything  serious.  She  gradually  sank  until  her  head  lay 
upon  her  husband's  shoulder.  From  the  look  of  her  face  I  feared  she  was  dying. 
I  instantly  gave  out  a  hymn,  which  the  peopje  sang,  and  went  to  her.  With  her 
husband's  help  she  was  carried  into  the  room  back  here.  She  was  in  a  most  seri- 
ous condition,  one  of  complete  collapse ;  her  heart  had  almost  stopped.  We 
called  upon  the  Lord,  and  laid  hands  upon  her.  When  she  was  restored  sufl&- 
ciently,  I  went  back  to  the  platform  and  continued  the  meeting,  and  Mrs.  Dowie 
took  the  case  in  hand  and  continued  to  pray  with  her.  She  had  a  very  peculiar 
deliverance.  The  pain  went  away  from  the  region  of  the  stomach,  and  then  she 
was  able  to  bring  up  water,  and  in  a  moment  she  realized  that  she  was  perfectly 
healed. 

"Her  husband  was  sitting  by  her  side  unsaved,  but  our  dear  brother,  when 
he  saw  his  wife  healed,  came  right  out  and  knelt  doN^ii  at  the  Lord's  feet,  and 
found  salvation.  [Many  expressions  from  the  audience  of  "Praise  the  Lord," 
"Thank  God,"  etc.]     I  will  ask  the  lady  herself  to  speak.'* 

Mrs.  F.  W.  Wetmore,  565  Eleventh  Street,  then  said  :  "While  I  was  listen- 
ing to  Mr.  Dowie's  lecture  a  violent  pain  took  me  in  the  stomach.  I  do  not  know 
what  the  cause  of  it  was.  Anyhow,  I  thought  I  could  overcome  it  by  listening  in- 
tently to  what  he  was  saying,  but  I  could  not,  and  fell  forward.  My  husband  said, 
*  Can  I  help  you?  '  I  said, '  No.  I  am  in  such  great  pain  I  can't  move  now.'  With 
that  the  light  seemed  to  be  going  away  from  me,  and  darkness  came  upon  me.  I 
thought  I  was  being  led  somewhere,  and  I  knew  the  minister  had  something  to 
do  with  me.  He  left  me  and  continued  his  discourse,  and  Mrs.  Dowie  prayed 
with  me,  and  quite  suddenly  the  pain  left  me.  I  have  been  free  from  pain  since 
that  night.'* 

Confirmation  by  Her  Husband,  "Who  "Was  Saved  and  Healed 
through  the  Incident. 

Mr.  Dowie  asked  her  husband  if  he  would  not  corroborate  the  testimony. 
He  readily  did  so,  and  said:  "I  will  state  that  I  was  sitting  alongside  of  her, 
but  partly  turned  away  from  her,  listening  very  intently  to  what  Mr.  Dowie  was 
saying.  I  noticed  he  was  looking  in  the  direction  of  my  wife,  and  it  caused  me 
to  turn  round,  and  I  saw  she  was  very  sick.  We  took  her  into  the  back  room 
and  Mr.  Dowie  prayed  with  her  and  laid  his  hands  on  her,  and  remained  with 
her  a  few  minutes,  and  then  came  back  and  continued  his  discourse.  Mrs.  Dowie 
remained  with  her.  She  was  suflFering  everything  but  death.  Finally  she  threw 
off  a  little  water,  and  she  got  up  and  said,  'I  have  no  pain  at  all;  I  am  entirely 
healed,  and  I  thank  God  for  it.'  Who  could  help  loving  a  God  and  a  Jesus  that 
would  do  such  a  thing  ?  "    ["  Hallelujah"  and  "  Amen"  from  the  audience.] 

Mr.  Dowie  asked,  '*  You  gave  yourself  to  Christ  that  night  ?  " 

"I  did." 

Eighty-Eight  "Witnesses  Ready  to  Testify  to  Their  Healing. 

Mr.  Dowie  then  said  :  "I  feel  if  we  were  to  continue  to  add  testimony  to 
testimony  we  would  scarcely  strengthen  what  you  have  already  heard.  I  will 
ask  all  those  who  have  been  healed  through  faith  in  Jesus  to  stand."  [Eighty- 
eight  persons  were  counted.] 

An    Attempt    to  Introduce  the    "Christian  Science"  Im- 

posture.> 

At  this  point  a  lady  asked  the  privilege  of  speaking,  and  spoke  of  her  heal- 
ing in  such  a  manner  as  led  Mr.  Dowie  to  inquire  if  she  was  not  a  believer  in  so- 


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called  Christian  Science.  She  replied  that  she  was.  Mr.  Dowie  firmly  forbade 
any  testimony  from  that  standpoint,  saying  tiiat  Christian  Science  was  neither 
scientific  nor  Christian;  that  it  denied  the  divinity  of  Christ,  denied  the  existence 
of  sickness  and  sin,  denied  the  Atoning  Sacrifice,  denied  the  personality  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  and  was  antichristian. 

Believers'  Baptism  and  Divine  Healing. 

A  lady  asked  the  privilege  of  giving  a  short  testimony,  and  said:  "Twenty- 
five  years  ago  I  was  lying  at  the  point  of  death.  For  four  years  I  had  been  an 
invalid.  One  night  as  I  lay  resting  the  Lord  spoke  to  me  and  said  that  if  I 
would  be  baptized  I  would  be  strong  for  the  work.  I  did  not  know  just  what 
that  meant.  I  had  been  a  Christian  eight  years  but  had  not  been  baptized  with 
water.  So  the  next  Sabbath  I  went  forward  at  the  command  of  my  Master  and 
was  baptized,  and  I  went  down  into  the  water  sick,  trembling,  lifeless  almo.st, 
and  1  came  forth  well  by  the  power  of  God,  and  for  the  last  seventeen  years  I 
have  been  in  the  Mission  field  at  as  hard  labor  and  as  much  of  it,  I  suppose,  as 
any  gentleman  engaged  in  missionary  work.  Blessed  be  God  for  His  power,  and 
for  His  keeping  power.  I  am  so  glad  to-night  to  know  that  the  Lord  is  my  per- 
fect healer.     I  have  no  other  physician. " 

Singing  of  Doxology. 

Mr.  Dowie  then  offered  the  following 

Prayer. 

*'  Father  in  Heaven,  bless  the  meeting  that  is  just  closing;  bless  the  testimony 
that  has  been  given  to  the  power  and  the  willingness  of  Thy  dear  Son  to  heal  all 
diseases.  We  bless  Thee  for  the  blind  that  have  received  their  sight,  for  the 
lame  that  have  walked,  for  the  deaf  that  have  heard,  and  for  the  cancers  and  the 
diseases  that  have  been  perfectly  cleansed.  i 

**  We  thank  Thee,  0  Lord,  that  these  are  but  a  few  of  a  great  many,  and 
that  the  witnesses  now  to  Thy  power  to  heal  are  rising  up  in  all  parts  of  the  country. 

'*  Give  us,  dear  Lord,  in  the  resumption  of  the  Mission,  greater  blessings  than 
we  have  ever  had  in  this  Mission.  Grant  that  Thy  servants  who  have  received 
this  truth  may  be  enabled  to  show  by  their  grateful  lives  that  they  are  nearer  to 
Thee  than  ever  before,  and  more  earnest  in  the  salvation  of  their  fellow-men, 
more  and  more  determined  to  glorify  Thee  in  their  spirits,  souls,  and  bodies, 
which  are  Thine. 

"Hear  us,  Lord,  and  forgive  anything  that  has  been  said  amiss.  In  Thy 
great  compassion  look  upon  those  who  are  being  led  astray  by  Modern  Spiritual- 
ism and  Christian  Science  falsely  so-called,  and  these  many  forms  of  error  that 
are  contrary  to  the  truth  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Help  us,  0  Lord  of  grace,  to 
withstand  evil  in  every  form,  and  to  maintain  the  standard  of  simple  faith  in  a 
living  Saviour. 

*'  And  now.  Lord,  accept  our  gratitude,  and  help  us  to  carry  these  beautiful 
Leaves  of  Healing  to  many  sin-sick  nations.  We  pray  Thee  that  we  may  be  spared 
to  do  this.  I  ask  Thee,  dear  Lord,  for  myself,  for  my  beloved  wife,  for  my  Secre- 
tary, and  for  my  dear  little  children,  the  little  pilgrim  band  who  are  carrying  this 
Mission  from  land  to  land.  Raise  up  many  to  help;  and  may  the  Branches  of  the 
American  Divine  Healing  Association  in  this  State  be  Bands  of  earnest  Christians, 
helpful  to  all  portions  of  the  Church  of  the  living  God. 

"  Again  we  pray  that  Thou  wilt  bless  us  each  individually;  keep  us  veiy 
close  to  Thee,  and  may  we  ever  be  faithful  in  following  only  Thee.  We  ask  it 
for  Jesus'  sake.     Amen. " 

Mr.  Dowie  then  pronounced  the  Benediction,  and  the  meeting  closed. 

Extracts  from  a  Verbatim  Report  of  a  Praise  and  Testi- 
mony Meeting  Held  by  Rev.  J.  A-  Dowie  and  Wife  in 
Hamilton  Church,  Oakland,  Cal.,  Monday  Evening,  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1889. 

(Reported  by  G.  H.  Hawes,  320  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco.) 
[The  large  platform  was  crowded  to  its  utmost  capacity  by  those  prepared  to 
testify,  and  scores  besides  were  seated  iu  front  and  on  each  side.     The  building  was 
quite  filled  with  a  large  and  intelligent  audience.] 


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Prayer. 

"May  the  words  of  our  mouth  and  the  meditations  of  our  hearts  be  accept- 
able in  Thy  sight,  O  Lord,  our  strength  and  our  redeemer." 

HyTXLn  162. 

,  "  My  hope  is  built  on  nothing  less 

Than  Jesus'  blood  and  righteousness." 

Mr.  Dowie  then  delivered  a  short  address  with  reference  to  the  work  and  the 
future  arrangements  for  Missions.  In  the  course  of  his  remarks  he  said:  "  We 
have  placed  before  the  Lord  in  our  meetings  to-day  a  very  large  number  of  peti- 
tions for  prayer — I  think  about  fifty  petitions,  from  various  parts  of  the  world; 
some  have  come  from  Switzerland,  some  from  Sweden,  some  from  Australia  and 
New  Zealand,  and  from  all  parts  of  the  continent.  Our  average  number  of  letters 
is  over  one  thousand  per  month,  and  apart  from  any  meetings  or  other  work,  the 
attention  demanded  by  this  vast  correspondence  taxes  every  power  the  Lord  has 
given  us. 

"  I  would  give  public  thanks  to  my  God  that  for  Jesus  Christ,  our  Saviour's 
sake,  He  has  given  us  the  help  of  the  Holy  Spirit  in  these  series  of  meetings, 
which  for  eight  months  we  have  conducted  in  this  State. 

"Although  we  shall  meet  with  the  friends  on  one  or  two  public  "occasions, 
this  is  the  last  Mission  we  shall  have  for  several  months.  We  have  it  under  con- 
sideration whether  we  shall  stay  the  remainder  of  the  year  upon  this  coast.  It  is 
the  desire  of  a  very  large  number  of  friends  that  we  should.  I  would  like  to-night 
to  commit  that  matter  to  God,  that  I  may  get  sound  judgment;  I  want  to  do  what 
God  wants  me  to,  for 

"  Whilst  place  we  seek  or  place  we  shun, 
The  heart  finds  happiness  in  none; 
But  with  my  God  to  gniide  the  way, 
•Tis  equal  joy  to  go  or  stay." 

"  I  just  feel  like  that  about  it.  It  is  very  pleasant  to  stay  on  this  coast;  but 
there  are  invitations  to  hold  Missions  throughout  the  Middle  and  Eastern  and 
Northern  and  Southern  States  of  your  country,  and  from  Canada,  from  Great 
Britain,  and  they  are  beginning  to  ask  from  Australia,  '  When  are  you  coming 
back  here? '  And  so  we  have  these  invitations.  I  thank  God  for  these  fields. 
We  havQ  calls  from  Asia  and  Africa,  and  from  all  countries  in  Europe,  and  we  do 
feel  that  the  Lord  is  linking  us  with  His  saints  who  are  holding  up  this  Banner 
and  Seeking  for  the  Light,  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  I  mention  this  at  the  very 
beginning  to-night,  for  I  want  to  beseech  God  to  give  us  wisdom,  even  while  en- 
gaged in  this  work,  that  we  may  be  able  to  come  to  some  right  conclusion  in  the 
course  of  a  week  as  to  whether  we  shall  stay  for  a  year  longer  on  this  coast  or 
not." 

After  Mr.  Dowie  had  read  the  petitions  and  offered  prayer  for  each,  his 
prayer  was  closed  in  these  words: — 

"And  now  we  ask  Thee  to  bless  us  in  this  closing  night  of  the  Mission. 
Grant  that  Thy  Holy  Spirit's  Power  may  rest  upon  all  who  are  here,    and  that 
great  grace  may  attend  every  word  spoken  in  Thy  name;  we  ask  it  for   Jesus'j 
sake." 

Mrs.  Dowie  then  read  the  67th  Psalm:  **  God  be  merciful  unto  us  and  bless 
us,  and  cause  His  face  to  shine  upon  us." 

Concerning  Finances. 

After  making  announcements  for  meetings  of  the  Association,  etc.,  Mr.  Dowie 
spoke  a  few  words;  he  said:  "I  would  like  to  say  now  that  the  free-will  offerings 
which  will  now  be  taken  up,  are  in  the  nature  of  thank-offerings,  and  in  case 
anybody  thinks  we  are  making  a  great  deal  of  money  out  of  this  matter,  I  want 
to  say  that  no  charges  have  been  made  of  any  kind;  that  no  person  who  has  ever  been 
healed  has  been  asTced  to  give  a  single  cent  of  money;  that  the  poor  have  been  treated 
just  as  kindly  and  as  lovingly  and  as  patiently  as  the  rich;  there  has  been  no  dif- 


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ference,  but  as  a  matter  of  fact,  it  is  the  poor  comparatively  who  have  argely 
been  blessed.  Thank  God  there  are  some  who  have  been  blessed  who  are  in  other 
circumstances.  I  would  like  to  say  here  that  I  have  borne  the  entire  responsibil- 
ity of  these  Missions  since  I  came  to  this  country,  with  the  solitary  exception  of 
the  Mission  held  in  the  Grand  Opera  House,  which  M'as  undertaken  by  friends. 
The  expense  is  not  inconsiderable.  I  cast  the  whole  matter  on  the  Lord,  and  the 
Lord  sustains  and  provides  for  me.  He  has  done  it  already  spiritually  and  in 
many  ways.  I  only  wish  I  could  spend  ten  thousand  lives  upon  the  work;  I  give 
him  all  I  have,  spirit,  soul,  and  body,  and  time  and  talent.  We  work  night  and 
day,  and  this  gospel  is  without  money  and  without  price  in  the  fullest  sense  of 
the  word.     ["  Amen  "  from  the  audience.] 

'*  I  just  say  that  because  these  free-will  offerings  are  to  cover  the  expenses  of 
the  Mission.  Remember,  it  is  not  for  my  sake,  but  for  the  work's  sake;  and  for 
the  work's  sake  it  ought  to  be  fuller  and  richer  and  freer  than  it  has  been.  I  am 
talking  for  Christ.  The  Lord  will  bless,  and,  I  have  no  doubt,  perfectly  take  care 
of  his  work.     I  think  it  is  due  to  myself  that  I  should  make  this  statement." 

Tbe  hymn,  "Jesus,  lover  of  my  soul,"  was  then  sung,  and  a  collection  taken 
up. 

One  Hundred  and  Sixty-Three  "Witnesses  Stand  Up  Prepared 
to  Testify  to  Their  Healing. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "Now,  beloved  friends,  I  would  like  before  we  ask  any- 
body to  witness  with  their  lips,  that  everyone  who  has  been  healed  through  faith 
in  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord,  will  just  please  rise  to  their  feet,  and  I  will  count  them. 
"There are  163 persons.  [Exclamations  of  "Praise  the  Lord,"  and  "  Amen. "] 
"  I  would  like  very  much  that  every  word  of  testimony  be  directly  given  and 
in  the  simplest  language,  and  that  no  one  shall  give  any  glory  to  me,  but  that  all 
glory  shall  be  given  to  Him  from  whom  all  power  has  come — to  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ." 

Healing  of  Cancer  in  the  Tongue. 

Mrs.  King,  an  elderly  lady,  said:  "It  is  a  privilege  to-night  to  testify  for 
Jesus  and  Him  only.  This  is  a  large  congregation,  much  larger  than  I  have  ever 
testified  before.  I  praise  God  He  is  with  me  to-night.  He  has  given  me  a  new 
tongue  and  a  new  song  in  my  mouth  to  sing  praises  unto  Jesus;  and  I  am  the 
daughter  of  a  millionaire  to-night,  and  that  is  the  great  King  up  there.  Oh, 
praise  his  name ! 

"  For  five  years  I  had  a  cancer  on  the  side  of  my  tongue,  and  I  had  four  doc- 
tors: Dr.  Darrin,  in  the  city,  on  Stockton  Street;  Dr.  Miller  out  in  the  Mission, 
San  Francisco,  on  Valencia  Street;  Dr.  Domin  and  Dr.  Sienna.  The  more  1  doc- 
tered  the  weaker  and  the  worse  I  grew. 

"  When  Dr.  Dowie  came  here,  under  his  doctrine  I  received  Jesus  for  my 
healer,  and  He  has  healed  both  soul  and  body.  Praise  the  Lord.  There  is  glory 
in  my  soul.  The  Scriptures  tell  us  to  testify  to  God,  or  worse  may  befall  us.  I 
am  going  to  testify  while  I  have  the  use  of  this  prattling  tongue  for  the  glory  and 
honor  of  my  God  and  Saviour.  He  is  a  wonderful  physician;  He  is  my  keeper 
and  He  is  my  physician.  Not  another  drop  of  medicine  shall  touch  my  lips.  I 
give  Him  all  the  honor  and  glory  to-night." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  There  were  two  large  holes  in  her  tongue,  and  the  disease 
was  entirely  beyond  all  human  power  to  heal.  I  have  examined  her  tongue  my- 
self, and  it  is  perfectly  healed.     One  tonsil  was  cut  away  because  of  the  disease." 

Instantaneous  Healing  of  a  Lady  "Who  Came  on  Crutches. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  **  These  crutches  [holding  them  in  his  hand]  belonged  to 
Mrs.  Hierlihy,  of  2110  Alameda  Avenue,  Alameda.  Her  husband  is  the  proprietor 
of  a  large  planing  mill,  corner  First  Street  and  Broadway,  Oakland,  and  therefore 
is  W3ll  known  to  many  in  your  city.  She  has  been  here  all  day  since  11a.  m., 
and  until  a  late  hour  tins  afternoon.  She  found  it  necessary  to  return  home,  and 
asked  her  friend,  Mrs.  Wixom,  of  1778  Eighth  Street,  to  testify  for  her. 

"  I  may  say  that  as  far  as  I  know  the  case  she  has  been  on  these  crutches  for 
some  time,  and  been  ill  for  twenty  years,  off  and  on,  and  been  in  bed  and  unable 


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to  be  about  for  several  months.  It  is  comparatively  recently  that  she  has  been 
able  to  get  upon  these  crutches.  She  was  healed  instantly  and  perfectly,  and 
can  go  about  freely  without  crutches. 

"We  received' the  following  petition  for  prayer  from  Mrs.  Hierlihy,  to  which 
her  healing  is  a  direct  answer. 

'"Alameda,  Cal.,  Feb.  12,  1889. 

" '  Dear  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie:  I  want  you  to  pray  for  me.  I  have  been  very 
sick  for  five  months  with  a  fever.  I  cannot  stand  up,  nor  walk  a  step  without 
the  aid  of  crutches.  I  regret  very  much  that  I  could  not  attend  your  meetings. 
I  have  suffered  for  many  years  with  a  painful  knee,  which  has  quite  crippled  me 
in  the  last  four  years.  Do  pray  that  1  may  be  healed,  God  is  my  Father,  Christ 
is  my  Saviour.  Yours  sincerely,  Mrs.  N.  J.  Hierlihy.' 

"Mrs.  Wixom  knows  more  about  the  case  than  I  do.     I  believe  she  is  your  old 
friend  ? " 

"Yes,  sir." 

"  You  know  these  crutches  ?  " 

•*I  did  not  know  them,  but  I  saw  her  leave  them." 

•*  You  know  who  they  belonged  to  ?  " 

"  To  Mrs.  Hierlihy.  She  is  an  intimate  friend  of  mine,  and  she  has  been 
very  ill  for  some  time.  She  has  had,  amongst  other  troubles,  a  very  bad  knee;  it 
was  swollen  so  badly  that  she  was  crippled  and  could  not  walk  upon  it.  Re- 
cently she  had  a  very  severe  illness  that  confined  her  to  her  bed  for  several  Weeks, 
and  her  life  was  despaired  of. 

"She  heard  of  Brother  Dowie's  meetings,  and  was  very  anxious  to  come. 
But  she  said  it  seemed  as  if  the  adversary  kept  her  from  going,  until  this  past 
week,  when  the  way  was  opened,  and  she  was  brought  in  a  buggy.  She  came  in  on 
crutches  and  with  the  assistance  of  several  persons,  and  could  scarcely  get  here,  she 
was  so  feeble.  She  was  healed  instantly,  left  her  crutches  and  walked  out  to  the 
buggy,  and  got  into  it  alone  without  any  assistance.  She  came  here  again  to-day, 
and  her  husband  told  me  she  ran  away  from  him,  got  out  of  the  buggy,  and  came 
in  herself,  when  he  didn  t  know  it. 

"  She  wished  me  to  testify  for  her  to-night.  She  was  obliged  to  go  home.  I 
am  very  glad  to  say  she  has  taken  Jesus  for  her  physician,  and  she  is  greatly 
blessed  in  spirit,  which  is  better  than  all.     Praise  His  name." 

Mr.  Dowie  asked,  "You  believe  she  is  free  from  her  disease  in  every  way?" 

"Yea,  sir.  She  was  sitting  on  the  front  seat  during  the  meeting,  and  she 
rose  up  and  walked,  and  I  said  to  some  friends,  '  Look  at  her;  she  used  to  limp 
so  badly,  and  now  see  how  nicely  she  walks.' 

"  i  am  sure  she  has  been  ill  for  several  years — I  don't  know  how  many." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "We  give  God  the  glory  in  this  case.  The  sister  has 
been  daily  testifying  by  her  presence  here,  and  staid  till  late  this  afternoon,  but 
had  occasion  to  go  home." 

Confirmation  by  Annie  Burkmann  of  Her  Restoration  to 
Sight  after  Fourteen  and  a  Half  Years'  Blindness  in  Her 
Left  Ey-e. 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  At  our  last  Testimony  Meeting  here,  on  February  4,  I 
said  that  some  very  wicked  and  very  false  statements  had  been  published  in  the  pa- 
pers of  your  city,  regarding  the  cases  of  those  healed  in  the  first  Oakland  Mission. 
I  referred  especially  to  a  statement  published  in  the  Oakland  Evening  Evquirer, 
that  a  number  of  the  persons  who  were  alleged  to  have  been  healed  through  faith 
in  Jesus  had  only  a  mythical  existence,  or  their  testimonies  were  false.  We 
proved  the  falsehood  of  the  charge  on  that  occasion,  and  silenced  the  Enquirer. 
We  shall  still  further  prove  its  wickedness  this  evening.  Now,  let  all  those  upon 
this  platform  and  in  the  audience  who  were  healed  in  the  first  Oakland  Mission 
please  stand,"  Fifteen  persons  stood,  and  amongst  them  Miss  Annie  Burkmann. 
Pointing  to  the  young  lady,  Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  Miss  Annie  Burkmann's  case  was 
specially  attacked.  This  dear  girl's  case  is  mentioned  on  pages  55  and  56,  in  the  little 

Eamph'et  entitled   'American  First-Fruits,'  and  a  Baptist  minister  named  Fleenor 
as  dared  to  say  it  is  untrue.     My  stenographer  sitting  here  to-night,  Mr.  G.  H. 


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Hawes,  of  320  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco,  took  down  all  the  testimonies  ex- 
actly as  they  appear  iu  the  *  'American  First-Fruits, "  and  he  is  a  professional  stenog- 
rapher. He  reports  here  to-night  in  a  professional  capacity.  He  reports  contin- 
ually in  courts  of  justice,  commissions,  and  in  all  kinds  of  important  positions, 
and  Mr.  Fleenor  dared  to  say  that  these  testimonies  were  false.  Amongst  those 
he  said  were  false  is  the  testimony  of  this  dear  girl.  We  intend  this  evening  to 
go  fully  and  publicly  into  this  and  other  disputed  cases,  and  show  once  more  that 
the  little  pamphlet  states  the  simple  truth.  Miss  Burkmann,  where  do  you  live 
now  ?  ^' 

♦'  813  Peralta  Street,  Oakland. " 

"  This  lady  is  sixteen  and  one-half  years  old,  and  was  blind  in  the  left  eye 
for  fourteen  and  a  half  years.*  She  had  disease  in  both  eyes.  She  has  had  her 
sight  restored.  Mr,  Fleenor  dared  to  say  that  testimony  was  false,  a  lie,  in  effect, 
and  that  her  sight  wa.s  not  restored.  I  took  the  pains  to  ask  Mrs.  Pereau,  Mr. 
Svenson,  Mr.  Wilson  and  others  to  go  down  to  the  editor  of  the  Enquirer  with 
this  girl  and  show  him  her  eyes.  He  examined  her  eyes  and  said  that  she  could 
see  perfectly.  He  took  the  addresses  of  tjhe  persons  who  came  with  her  and  her 
own  testimony,  and  said  he  would  put  the  matter  straight  the  next  morning,  and 
he  has  never  said  a  word  about  it.  [Laughter.]  Now  that  is  fairness  on  the 
part  of  the  local  press  publishing  falsehoods,  and  then  saying  they  will  tell  the 
truth,  and,  by  failing  to  do  so,  telling  another  falsehood.  They  rob  God  of 
His  glory.  I  convicted  them  publicly  a  fortnight  ago  in  this  hall,  but  they 
still  remain  impenitent,  and  still  spread  false  statements  congeming  these  cases. 
Is  that  so.  Brother  Svenson  ? " 

•*  Yes,  sir." 

•*  The  editor  said  he  would  '  straighten  that  out '  ?  " 

*•  Yes,  sir.     We  are  all  witness  to  that,  besides  Annie  Burkmann  herself." 

**  I  want  you  to  see  we  are  not  complaining  of  the  persistent  falsehoods  of  the 
local  press  without  a  great  deal  of  reason,  and  we  will  never  allow  it  to  lie  with 
impunity.  [Cries  of  "Amen."]  I  care  not  a  single  farthing  for  all  that  the  press 
can  do  or  say.  God  is  in  this  work,  and  He  is  stronger  than  all  the  force  of  a 
corrupt  newspaper  press."     [Fervent  **  Amens."] 

"  Whereas  I  Was  Blind,  Now  I  See." 

Miss  Burkmann  then  said:  "To-night  is  just  four  months  ago  since  I  first 
could  tell  the  time  on  a  little  watch,  and  now  I  can  read  medium  print  perfectly 
well,  which  I  never  did  before.     I  give  all  the  glory  to  Him  who  did  it." 

Mr.  Dowie  held  the  face  of  his  watch  before  her  and  asked  her  to  tell  the 
time,  saying  the  watch  had  stopped.  She  said,  **  Twenty-five  minutes  past  eight. " 
This  she  did  with  the  eye  that  had  been  blind,  covering  the  other  completely. 
He  then  asked  her,  "That  was  the  eye  that  was  perfectly  blind  for  fourteen  and 
one-half  years  ?  " 

"Yes,  sir." 

**  And  now  is  the  disease  out  of  both  your  eyes  ?  " 

"  Yes,  sir,  they  are  perfectly  wall." 

**  And  they  were  diseased  all  your  life  ?  " 

"  Yes,  sir,  except  one  and  a  half  years. " 

"Who  gets  the  glory?" 

"God." 

"  Thank  God.     That  will  do. " 

Her  Brotlier  Testifies:    "What  She  Has  Told  You  Is  True." 

Mr.  Svenson  said  Miss  Burkmann's  brother  and  sister  were  present,  and 
asked  Mr.  Dowie  to  have  them  stand  up. 

Mr.  Dowie  did  so,  saying,  ' '  We  will  have  this  matter  out  with  the  editor.  I 
like  an  open  fight  with  God's  enemies.     Jesus  is  Conqueror." 

The  brother  and  sister  came  to  the  platform  from  the  audience,  and  turning 
first  to  the  brother,  Mr.  Dowie  said:  "Are  you  the  brother  of  this  girl  ?  " 

"  Yes,  sir." 

"  How  long  was  she  blind  ?  * 


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''Well,  I  could  not  tell  you.     I  kmow  she  was  blind  from  her  childhood." 
**  And  you  know  she  sees  ?  '* 
"I  know  she  sees." 
**  What  is  your  name  ?  ** 
**Gus  Burkmann  " 
**  Where  do  you  live  ?  '* 
**813PeraltaSt.' 

*'  Tell  all  you  know  about  your  sister's  case." 

**  Well,  I  can't  tell  anything  more  than  what  she  has  said.  Whai  she  has 
told  you  is  true.'' 

Her  Sister  Says :    '*A11  that  Annie.  Has  Said  Is  True.'* 

Mr.  Dowie  then  turned  to  the  sister  and  asked:     **  What  is  your  name  ?  " 

"Christine  Burkmann." 
Where  do  you  live  ?  " 

**  1428  New  Broadway.  All  that  Annie  has  said  is  true.  I  know  she  was 
blind  in  her  left  eye  since  she  was  one  year  and  a  half  old,  and  now  it  is  all  gone; 
the  Lord  has  given  her  her  sight.  I  remember  when  she  got  the  trouble,  because 
1  had  her  in  my  arms.  Now  she  can  see  and  her  eyes  were  pretty  bad."  [Cries  of 
"  Hallelujah  "  and  "Glory  to  God."] 

Her  Swedish  Friends  Confirm  the  Testimony. 

Mr.  Svenson,  of  761  Peralta  Street,  Oakland,  who  knows  Annie  Burkmann 
well,  said:  **  Remember  that  in  this  case  she  is  old  enough  to  speak  for  herself; 
she  knows  what  God  has  done  for  her,  and  that  is  all  we  need  to  hear.  But  now 
her  brother  and  sister  testify  also  to  the  truth  of  her  own  statement,  and  if  any- 
one is  not  satisfied  with  that  testimony,  we  can't  help  it.  If  you  cannot  believe 
now  from  what  you  have  heard  in  this  case  we  cannot  convince  any  man  at  all. " 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  Thanks  be  to  God." 

Mr.  Svenson  continued:  "  She  knows  that  she  has  been  blind  and  now 
sees." 

Confirmation  of  •'First-Fruits"  Reports. 

Mrs.  Pereau,  of  West  Berkeley,  said  she  confirmed  her  testimony  given  in 
**  American  First-Fruits. " 

Miss  Johnson  confirmed  her  testimony  given  at  the  Praise  and  Testimony 
Meeting  held  two  weeks  previous. 

Mrs.  Leveritz  confirmed  her  testimony  as  recorded  in  "American  First- 
Fruits." 

Mrs.  Stacy  confirmed  her  testimony  regarding  the  healing  of  her  son  as  given 
in  "American  First-Fruits." 

Mrs.  Ransome  confirmed  her  testimony  as  given  in  "American  First-Fruits.'* 

John  Ashworth's  Case. 

Mr.  Bowie  then  said:  "There  was  a  little  mistake  made  in  'First-Fruits.' 
The  address  of  Mr.  Ashworth  is  given  at  160  Broadway,  and  Mr.  Fleenor  said, 
that  would  be  out  in  the  water;  there  was  no  160  Broadway.  Any  candid, 
honestlj  disposed  man  could  have  seen  that  was  a  mistake  of  the  printers,  bnt 
not  so  Mr.  Fleenor.  He  and  other  ministers,  I  grieve  to  say,  made  merry  over 
the  mythical  John  Ashworth,  whose  home  was  under  the  water,  and  Mr.  Fleenor 
and  his  friends  made  merry  in  public.  It  was  860  Broadway  where  this  young 
man  lived.  He  is  now  absent  in  the  country,  where  I  know  not,  and  I  cannot 
produce  him  here;  but  we  have  his  written  testimony,  and  there  are  scores  now 
present  who  heard  him  deliver  it  last  August." 

[Although  we  did  not  know  where  to  find  John  Ashworth,  God  did,  and  in 
answer  to  our  prayer,  and  through  the  columns,  as  will  be  seen,  of  a  friendly 
little  weekly  newspaper,  John  Ashworth  came  to  light  within  three  weeks  of  the 
meeting.  The  following  letter  from  him  speaks  for  itself,  both  as  to  his  healing, 
its  permanence,  and  the  spiritual  results  of  the  Lord's  work.     Surely  it  is  our 


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Lord  Himself  who  thus  enables  us  to  put  His  enemies  to  shame.     Alas!  that  they 
should  be  those  who  profess  to  be  of  His  own  Household.] 

"Riverside,  Cal.,  March  8th,  1889. 

**  Dear  Mr.  Dowie  :  I  have  the  pleasure  of  writing. to  you  again.  Recently, 
someone  sent  me  two  papers  from  ^Oakland.  They  were  published  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  called  The  San  Francisco  Vindicator.  Who  sent  them  I  do  not 
know,  but  I  read  them  over  and  was  pleased.  They  gave  accounts  of  another  Mis- 
sion you  have  lately  had  in  Oakland,  and  of  its  success.  But,  as  usual,  I  read 
how  you  had  been  attacked  by  the  Oakland  papers.  Nevertheless,  that  does  not 
alter  my  faith  in  your  good  work.  My  faith  is  twenty-fold  stronger  than  on  July 
18th,  1888,  on  which  date  I  was  healed,  and  I  am  enjoying  the  same  excellent  and 
perfect  eye-sight  to-day.  Spectacles,  after  fourteen  years'  wearing,  have  been 
entirely  abandoned.  To  my  mind,  since  then  (July,  '88),  I  have  had  new  life 
given  to  me.  Somehow  I  have  a  peace  that  never  entered  my  mind  before.  I  do 
not  have  to  meet  trials  and  temptations  in  the  same  way  that  I  had  to  meet  them 
before  this  wonderful  blessing  came.  Temptations  and  trials  are  now  only 
pleasures  to  me. 

"  What  I  once  loved,  I  now  hate,  and  what  I  once  did  hate  I  now  love. 
Somehow  I  have  a  spirit  that  gives  me  more  understanding  of  the  Bible.  These 
last  six  months  I  have  learned  more  of  the  Bible  than  in  all  my  short  life  put  to- 
gether. Where  I  was  once  weak  in  all  details  of  life  I  am  twenty- 
fold  stronger.  Life  is  a  pleasure  to  me  now.  Words  of  expression  cannot  give 
my  gratification  to  Christ,  and  my  whole  heart  and  soul  are  glad.  I  feel  like  St . 
Paul, —  I  have  to  say,  *  Lord,  what  wilt  thou  have  me  to  do  ?  '  I  have  prayed 
for  you  and  your  missionary  work  continually,  and  wondered  many  a  time  where 
you  were.     May  the  Lord  bless  you  and  Mrs.  Dowie  in  your  work.     Believe  me, 

"Yours  sincerely,         John  Ash  worth." 

Healing  of  Many  Years'  Dyspepsia. 

Mrs.  Newton,  1269  Cypress  Street,  Oakland,  said:  **  I  am  perfectly  healed 
of  many  years'  suffering  from  dyspepsia.  I  bless  the  Lord  for  it.  I  took  Him  at 
His  word."  (Mrs.  Newton  spoke  so  low  it  was  difficult  for  the  reporter  to  hear 
her,  but  he  understood  her  to  say  that  she  had  been  healed  of  neuralgia  before 
Mr,  Ddwie  came. ) 

Healing  of  Ten  Years'  Heart  Disease. 

A  lady  rose  on  the  platform  and  gave  her  name  as  Mrs.  T.  E.  Sprinkle,  1365 
Peralta  Street,  Oakland.  Mr.  Dowie  did  not  seem  at  first  to  know  much  about 
the  case,  and  said:  '*  I  really  do  not  remember  what  many  are  healed  of,  even 
although  used  in  the  cases.  I  have  seen  so  many  hundreds  of  persons  healed  that  I 
do  not  recall  the  cases  until  I  have  looked  at  them  for  a  few  moments." 

Mrs.  Sprinkle  then  said:  **I  suflfered  with  heart  disease.  I' feel  to  thank 
the  Lord  that  I  am  perfectly  healed,  spirit,  soul  and  body.  Two  doctors  treated 
me  for  heart  disease, — Dr.  Darrin,  in  San  Francisco,  and  Dr.  Grissell.  Now  I  am 
perfectly  healed." 

Mr.  Dowie  asked  Mrs.  Sprinkle  how  many  years  she  had  the  difficulty,  and 
she  answered,  "Ten." 

Confirmation  of  Healings  After  Eight  Months. 

Mr.  Dowie  asked  those  who  were  healed  in  the  first  San  Franciscan  Mission 
to  please  stand.  A  large  number  did  so;  and  as  this  was  the  last  Testimony  Meet- 
ing likely  to  be  held  in  the  immediate  neighborhood  of  San  Francisco  for  some 
time,  Mr.  Dowie  deemed  it  profitable  to  show  the  permanence  of  these  Divine 
Healings  by  giving  a  few  of  those  mentioned  in  '*  First-Fruits  "  an  opportunity  of 
again  witnessing  for  Jesus. 

Mrs.  Ritohville  said  she  confirmed  the  testimony  regarding  her  own  healing 
and  sight  restored  to  her  boy,  who  had  been  born  blind,  as  given  in  ' '  American 
First- Fruits, "  pages  10  to  12  and  48  and 49,  most  emphatically.  She  added  that 
r'er  boy's  sight  was  improving  all  the  time.     [Cries  of  '* Bless  the  Lord."] 


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Mr.  Edwards  testified  that  he  was  healed  without  human  touch  in  the  first 
Mission. 

Miss  Foster  said:  **  I  confirm  my  previous  testimony  (recorded  in  *  First- 
Fruits,'  pages  14  and  15).  I  was  wonderfully  healed  on  the  first  day  of  the  first 
Mission  in  San  Francisco.." 

Mrs.  Edward  Leach  said,  upon  being  asked  if  she  confirmed  her  previous 
testimony  (recorded  in  "First-Fruits,"  pages  57  and  58),  "  Indeed  I  do.  The 
Lord  keeps  me  all  the  time." 

Mrs.  Chambers  was  asked  if  her  mother  was  continuing  in  perfect  health  (re- 
ferring to  Mrs.  Brown,  who  was  healed  of  a  bone  felon. )  She  replied  that  her  mother 
remained  well,  and  was  in  Sacramento.  This  healing  is  recorded  on  pages  4  and  5, 
page  39,  and  pages  46  and  47  of  "  First-Fruits. " 

Dr.  Dowiesaid  regarding  this  case:  "This  was  the  first  case  healed  through 
us  in  this  country.  She  has  repeated  her  testimony  frequently.  She  was  in- 
curably ill  at  Sacramento;  she  came  down  to  San  Francisco,  with  great  difl&culty, 
on  a  crutch,  and  was  saved  and  then  healed  instantly.  Her  daughter  was  re- 
stored to  God  at  the  same  time,  and  she  now  wants  to  confirm  her  mother's  testi- 
mony.    [Turning  to  Mrs.  Chambers]    That  is  all^true  ?  " 

**  Yes,  sir.  She  had  a  bone  felon  in  the  ankle,  and  it  is  entirely  healed.  She 
says  that  it  is  her  best  foot.  She  would  have  been  glad  to  have  been  here  to- 
night, but  it  was  inconvenient  for  her  to  make  the  trip  down  here.  She  wanted 
me  to  testify  for  her. " 

Healed  After  Twenty-Eight  Years'  Suffering. 

Mr.  Do wie  then  referred  to  the  case  of  Miss  Wilcox,  as  follows:  "On  the 
2d  of  July  last  this  sister,  after  twenty-eight  years'  suff"ering,  at  the  hall  of  the  Y. 
M.  C.  A.,  was  instantly  restored  to  God,  and  left  her  crutches,  which  we  have  in 
our  possession  to  this  day." 

Miss  Wilcox  said:  *' I  confirm  my  testimony,  which  is  in  'American  First- 
Fruits,'  (Recorded  on  pages  13,  23  and  50.)  It  is  all  true.  My  present  address 
is  426  Fulton  Street,     I  can  be  found  there  if  anyone  wishes  to  call  upon  me." 

Mr,  Dowie  said:  '*  Let  us  see  how  you  walk."  [Miss  Wilcox,  looking  strong 
and  vigorous,  walked  with  no  difficulty  whatever,  causing  a  great  degree  of  inter- 
est in  the  congregation,  and  there  were  many  fervent  exclamations.] 

Miss  Wilcox  continued:  "  For  four  years  and  four  months  I  was  afflicted  with 
this  last  trouble.  But  the  disease  was  of  twenty-eight  years'  standing,  which 
caused  the  ulceration  of  the  ankle.  It  broke  out  in  difi'erent  places.  When  I 
was  twelve  years  I  had  hip  disease,  which  caused  one  leg  to  be  shorter  than  the 
other;  but  after  I  had  received  strength  to  walk,  and  had  been  walking  two 
weeks,  the  short  leg  became  longer  than  the  other,  and,  as  near  as  I  can  remem- 
ber, on  the  26th  of  September  last  it  came  in  its  place  the  same  as  the  other.'* 

A  Leading  Lawyer  Says,  "The  Evidence  Is  Enough  to 
Convince  Any  Court." 

Mr.  Dowie  then  said:  "  All  who  saw  this  lady  come  up  on  her  crutches,  lay 
them  down  and  rise  up  and  walk,  please  stand.  This  was  a  public  healing. 
[A  number  stood  up.]  Nineteen  witnesses.  Is  that  enough,  Mr.  Galpin  ?  You 
are  a  lawyer." 

Mr.  Galpin,  a  lawyer  of  excellent  standing  of  San  Francisco,  immediately 
responded  from  the  audience,  "Yes,  sir;  enough  to  convince  any  court." 

Mr.  Dowiesaid:  "Now  you  see  the  Law  confirms  this  Gospel.  I  have  a 
good  lawyer  ©n  the  subject."    [Laughter,] 

Remarkable  Healing  of  a  Yonng  Lady's  Arm. 

"  I  want  some  of  the  cases  now  that  have  been  healed  in  this  Mission.  Miss 
Nettie  Johnson,  1331  Union  Street,  San  Francisco,  will  speak  first.  I  will  first 
of  all  ask  her  to  show  you  her  arm." 

[Miss  Johnson  exposed  her  forearm,  showing  on  the  under  side  a  scar  three  or 
iour  inches  long  and  half  an  inch  wide,  red,  and  plainly  visible  to  the  audience.] 


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She  said:  "I  was  in  Memphis,  Tenn.,  a  year  ago  the  13th  of  this  month, 
and  a  piece  of  woodwork  fell  on  my  arm  and  broke  it.  I  did  not  leave  the  place 
until  hot  weather  commenced,  and  the  bone  decayed.  I  went  to  Br.  Taylor,  on 
Geary  Street,  and  he  said  I  would  never  have  the  use  of  my  arm  from  my  elbow 
up — that  I  could  never  turn  it.  He  took  me  to  a  skeleton,  and  showed  me  just 
exactly  how  I  would  be  aflfected.  I  had  it  operated  on,  and  sure  enough  after  it 
had  healed  pretty  well  I  could  not  tuni  it  at  all.  He  said  I  would  have  to  give 
up  my  music. 

"  I  came  here  to  Mr.  Dowie,  and  he  laid  hands  upon  my  arm,  and  instantly 
I  tried  that  movement  and  I  had  it.  [Exclamations  of  "Bless  the  Lord."]  It  has 
given  me  no  pain,  and  I  have  practiced  on  an  average  five  hours  a  day  on  the 
piano  ever  since."    [Great  enthusiasm  in  the  audience,  and  fervent  exclamations.] 

Mr.  Dowie  asked:  "Have  you  now  fully  given  your  heart  to  the  Lord  ?'' 

"Yes,  indeed." 

"  How  long  did  it  take  for  the  Lord  to  heal  you  of  that  which  the  doctors 
said  would  be  a  life-long  infirmity  ?  " 

"About  half  a  second.  About  four  inches  of  the  bone  had  been  taken  out. 
The  nerves  that  run  into  two  of  the  fingers  were  cut,  and  when  I  tried  to  use 
those  two  fingers  I  had  no  control  of  them  at  all;  now  I  have  a  perfect  control 
of  them. " 

Healing  of  an  Internal  Cancer. 

Mrs.  Boillot,  1123  Greenwich  Street,  San  Francisco,  who  had  testified  in 
previous  Missions,  repeated  the  story  of  her  healing,  andmlso  that  of  her  baby, 
in  an  eloquent  manner,  which  deeply  impressed  the  large  audience.  This  case  is 
given  fully  at  page  42  and  pages  64,  65. 

A  False  Shepherd,  or  a  True  Shepherd?     How  the  Lord 
Settled  the  Question. 

Mrs.  Boillot  said:  "My  baby  was  very  sick  at  the  beginning  of  the  Mission 
in  the  Grand  Opera  House,  and  I  would  not  go  to  any  doctor.  I  prayed  for  the 
baby,  but  that  time  it  seemed  the  prayer  would  not  be  answered.  I  heard  that 
Mr.  Dowie  was  preaching,  but  some  of  the  Christians  with  whom  I  was  in  fellow- 
ship told  me  that  he  was  a  'false  shepherd,'  and  that  the  sheep  ought  not  to 
follow  the  voice  of  a  stranger.  So  I  kept  away.  But  the  Lord  called  me  all  the 
time,  *  Go  to  Mr.  Dowie  with  the  case.  Go  to  Mr.  Dowie  with  the  case.'  And 
I  struggled  with  the  Lord  for  many  a  day.  The  child  got  M^orse  and  worse,  and 
three  days  and  three  nights  it  did  nothing  but  cry  and  scream  all  the  time,  and 
no  food  would  agree  with  it.  Prayer  did  not  amount  to  anything,  and  all  the 
time  I  heard,  *  Go  to  Mr.  Dowie  with  the  case. '     At  last  I  yielded  to  the  Lord. " 

Mr.  Dowie  asked,  "  Didn't  you  think  I  was  a  very  bad  man?  ' 

She  replied,   "  I  don't  feel  worthy  to  tell  the  truth  about  it. 

"  I  sent  in  a  petition  for  prayer  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on  the  17th 
of  October  last,  asking  you  to  pray  for  my  baby,  and  saying  I  would  pray 
at  eight  o'clock.  I  knew  the  time  you  were  praying,  for  I  saw  a  change  in  the 
face  of  that  child.  I  said  to  the  little  girl,  *  They  have  been  praying  for  you, 
and  I  have  been  praying  for  you,  and  now  you  go  to  sleep.'  The  baby  wanted 
to  cry  as  usual,  and  I  said,  '  Now  you  go  to  sleep,  for  the  prayer  must  be  an- 
swered.' And  the  baby  fell  asleep,  and  it  slept  until  eight  o'clock  the  next  day. 
The  next  day  I  gave  her  just  the  same  food  that  never  would  agree  with  her,  and 
her  stomach  supported  it  beautifully.  The  child  was  changed,  the  food  was  not 
changed,  and  it  has  been  well  ever  since. 

•  *  I  saw  that  Mr.  Dowie  was  the  servant  of  God.  I  am  not  worthy  to  stand  up 
to-night,  and  I  must  say,  if  he  likes  it  or  not,  he  is  the  servant  of  the  God  most 
high,  and  the  Lord  has  given  us  great  grace  in  bringing  him  over  here.  I  have 
received  such  a  blessing  in  my  soul,  through  the  Divine  Healing  doctrine.  I  can 
say  that  I  trust  the  Lord,  and  I  can  never  express  my  thankfulness  and  grateful- 
ness. I  hope  Mr.  Dowie  will  forgive  me  that  I  ever  thought  he  was  a  false  shep- 
herd; but  I  have  seen  he  was  not  a  false  shepherd.  The  Lord  led  me  through  deep 
waters  to  see  it,  and  I  give  Him  the  glory." 


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Mr.  Dowie:  "Ezekiel  34:4,  aud  the  words  of  our  Lord  in  the  ninth  and 
tenth  chapters  of  John,  show  clearly  that  one  striking  characteristic  of  '  the  false 
shepherds'  is  that  they  oppose  the  ministry  of  Divine  Healing.  Of  course  we  fully 
forgive  our  sister.  It  was  at  no  time  her  willful  sin  that  she  thought  evil  of  us. 
She  was  deceived  by  professing  Christians,  who  will  have  to  give  an  account  to 
God  for  their  sinful  conduct,  in  making  and  spreading  falsehoods  concerning  the 
work  of  the  Lord  in  which  we  are  engaged. " 

A.  Lady  Teacher  Confirms  Her  Testimony. 

MissPereau,  of  1212  Seventh  Street,  and  of  the  Cole  Public  School,  Oakland, 
with  much  earnestness  and  clearness  said:  "  I  deem  it  oue  of  the  greatest  privileges 
that  I  have  ever  enjoyed  in  my  life  to  be  one  of  the  number  who  stand  before 
you  to-night  to  glorify  Jesus  not  ouly  as  my  Saviour,  but  as  my  Healer,  for  He 
not  only  saves  us  from  sin,  but  He  redeems  our  mortal  bodies  according  to  His 
own  promise. 

*'  I  was  a  great  sufferer  for  fourteen  months  or  more  from  an  affection  of  the 
stomach — a  nervous  affection  I  think  it  was.  I  would  not  attempt  to  give  it  a 
name,  because  the  different  doctors  I  consulted  gave  it  different  names,  and  like- 
wise treated  it  differently.  Dr.  Hill,  of  this  city,  called  it  nervous  prostration 
of  the  lining  of  the  stomach,  brought  on  from  overwork.  Whatever  it  may  be 
called,  I  know  that  I  suffered  very  intensely  from  it,  and  for  fourteen  months  1 
was  unable  to  digest  or  retain  anything  on  my  stomach  whatever,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  a  small  amount  of  bread  and  milk,  and  the  bread  had  to  be  very  stale, 
and  the  milk  with  very  little  cream  on  it,  or  it  would  make  me  ver}"^  sick. 

"I know  there  are  many  people  that  think  a  little  stomach  disorder  don't 
amount  to  much;  but  if  you  had  suffered  as  much  as  I  have,  you  would  think  differ- 
ently. But  to  let  you  know  just  exactly  how  bad  it  was,  I  will  say  that  I  could 
not  take  anything  that  had  any  saccharine  matter  in  it,  or  anything  greasy.  On 
one  occasion,  when  Dr.  Hill  treated  me,  he  gave  me  those  little  pellets  made  of 
sugar  and  water,  medicated,  and  the  amount  of  sugar  those  little  pellets  con- 
tained made  me  deathly  sick,  and  he  had  to  give  me  medicine  in  liquid  form.  A 
short  time  before  I  was  healed  I  accidentally,  in  eating  a  little  piece  of  dry  bread, 
got  hold  of  a  little  scrap  of  butter,  which  I  did  not  notice  on  the  bread,  and 
which,  if  I  had  known,  I  would  not  have  eaten  the  bread.  I  suffered  three  days 
intensely  from  the  effects  of  that  small  amount  of  butter;  I  don't  thiiik  there 
was  more  than  you  could  spread  over  a  nickel.  [For  foreign  readers  let  us  ex- 
plain: "A  nickel"  is  a  5-cent  piece,  about  the  size  of  an  English  sixpence]  I 
was  perfectly  prostrate,  and  I  could  not  raise  my  hand  to  my  head,  broke  out  in 
a  cold  perspiration,  and  had  to  lie  down,  and  the  effects  did  not  wear  off  for  three 
days.    This  will  give  you  some  idea  of  the  bad  condition  of  my  stomach. 

**  It  is  three  weeks  ago  to-day  that  I  accepted  Jesus  as  my  Saviour  right  here 
in  this  building.  I  had  never  given  myself  up  entirely  before  that  day  to  be- 
come a  thorough  Christian.  On  the  following  Thursday  I  accepted  Jesus  as  my 
Healer.  Dr.  Dowie  laid  hands  upon  me  here  in  this  building  and  prayed.  He 
■^laid  hands  on  more  than  sixty  others  on  the  same  occasion.  He  just  touched 
me — no  rubbing — and  took  his  hand  away  instantly.  He  afterwards  told  me  to 
eat  a  good,  hearty  meal  in  the  name  of  the  Lord.  I  felt  considerable  apprehen- 
sion when  I  heard  that;  but  he  was  going  to  dine  at  the  house  of  my  brother 
with  me  that  evening,  and  I  felt  that  I  must  do  it,  because  I  knew  he  would  see 
me.  I  just  prayed  that  I  would  be  healed,  if  I  had  not  been  already — of  course 
I  could  not  tell,  because  I  had  not  eaten  anything — for  I  wanted  to  be  healed 
before  I  sat  down  at  the  table,  because  I  knew  he  would  make  me  eat.  So  we 
sat  down  to  the  table,  and  the  Doctor  had  me  served  to  everything  that  was  on 
the  table,  and  the  food  was  very  rich.  The  Doctor  said,  '  You  eat  now. ' 
[Laughter.]  I  ate  a  large  piece  of  turkey,  and  you  know  that  turkey  is  the 
hardest  meat  there  is  to  digest,  next  to  pork  anyway.  I  might  say  here  that  the 
last  meat  I  had  eaten  before  that  was  some  beef-steak.  My  mother  took  a  very 
nice  piece  of  beef  and  scraped  it,  taking  just  the  fine  meat,  and  put  it  between 
two  or  three  slices  of  bread,  and  made  a  little  sandwich  and  heated  it  all  through, 
without  a  particle  of  grease  about  it.     I  ate  that,  and  it  made  me  very,  very 


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sick.  I  saw  then  that  I  could  not  eat  any  more  meat;  I  did  not  attempt  it  either 
after  that.  I  could  not  eat  oysters,  or  soft-boiled  eggs,  or  any  of  those  things 
that  are  considered  a  light  diet.  Besides  turkey  I  ate  potato,  rich  gravy,  all  the 
butter  I  wanted  on  my  bread,  dressing  on  the  turkey,  drank  coffee,  and  wound 
i;p  with  peaches  and  cream,  cake,  with  a  thick  frosting  of  sugar  on  it  (before 
tliat  I  could  not  have  eaten  a  particle  of  sugar),  and  an  orange.  But  better  than 
that,  I  have  gone  right  on  eating.  I  know  there  are  a  great  many  who  think 
that  I  might  have  eaten  at  the  time,  l^ecause  the  Doctor  was  beside  me  and  in- 
spired me  with  faith  and  courage;  but  the  blessing  continues  all  the  time,  so  that 
idea  will  not  stand.  The  next  morning  the  Doctor  took  breakfast  at  the  house, 
and  he  saw  me  eat  fried  eggs  and  drink  coffee.  The  other  morning  I  ate  a  large 
piece  of  fried  salmon.     Now  I  can  eat  everything." 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  I  think  on  account  of  your  illness  you  had  to  retire  tem- 
porarily from  your  position  ?  " 

"  Yes,  sir,"  she  replied,  "at  the  beginning  of  the  present  school  term  I  asked 
far  and  obtained  a  leave  of  absence  for  sixty  days;  I  thought  if  I  was  better  at 
the  end  of  that  time  I  would  go  back,  but  it  looked  very  doubtful.  That  time 
has  not  yet  expired;  I  will  go  back  when  it  hats  expired,  well  and  strong,  which  I 
did  not  expect  when  I  took  the  leave  of  absence." 

Mr.  Dowie  exclaimed,  "Thanks  to  God;  I  am  very  glad." 

[This  young  lady  has  returned  to  her  duties  as  teacher,  full  of  strength  and 
hope,  and  is  now  an  active  Christian  worker.] 

Healing  of  Eighteen  Years'  Infirmities  and  of  Thirty-Four 
Years'  Total  Deafness  in  the  Left  Ear. 

"Xow  that  is  a  very  late  case;  now  we  will  have  one  that  is  older. "  [Mr.  Dowie 
called  on  Mrs.  Gerold,  of  823  Dolores  Street,  San  Francisco.  She  rose  from  a 
back  seat  of  the  crowded  rows  of  persons  on  the  platform,  all  prepared  to  testify 
to  their  healing.     Mr,  Dowie  asked  her  to  step  to  the  front.     She  said: — ] 

"1  am  very  thankful  to  be  able  to  come  out  and  let  the  people  have  a  look  at 
me.  I  was  sick  for  eighteen  years  when  I  went  to  the  Doctor.  When  I  told  him 
about  my  disease  he  asked  me  if  I  was  fully  converted,  and  if  I  was  willing  to 
take  Jesus  as  my  healer.  On  that  very  day  I  did  both.  I  think  it  was  the 
Saturday  before  Christmas,  and  it  was  the  happiest  Christmas  I  had  on  earth.  I 
was  instantly  healed.  I  attended  only  three  meetings  when  Mr.  Dowie  laid  his 
hands  upon  my  back.  My  husband  and  my  children  used  to  help  me  get  off  from 
my  chair;  they  had  to  lift  me  up.  When  I  was  in  the  street-cars  I  used  to  be 
very  much  embarrassed,  and  they  would  say,  'Madam,  can  I  assist  you  to  rise  ? ' 
I  had  a  great  deal  of  pain.  I  had  spinal  trouble  and  was  often  unable  to  lift  my 
foot  from  the  ground.  When  I  went  upstairs  my  children  would  lift  up  one  foot 
and  placQ  it  on  the  stair,  and  then  lift  up  the  other,  and  I  used  to  get  upstairs  in 
that  fashion.  Since  1  was  healed  I  have  remained  perfectly  well.  I  have  no  pain 
in  my  back  or  anywhere  else. 

"I  had  been  deaf  in  my  left  ear  ever  since  I  was  three  years  old;  never  heard 
anything  in  that  ear.  Mr.  Dowie  asked  me  on  the  evening  when  I  first  testified 
at  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church,  San  Francisco,  if  that  was  my  address  on  a 
card  I  had  given  him.  I  was  sitting  below  him  in  front  of  the  platform,  and  he 
spoke  in  a  low  tone  into  my  left  ear,  and  although  I  had  a  big  piece  of  cotton  in 
my  ear  I  heard  what  he  said  in  that  ear,  and  1  had  never  heard  anything  with  it 
since  I  was  th'ee  years  old,  when  it  was  made  deaf  by  scarlet  fever.  1  am  now 
thirty-seven  years  old. 

"I  give  all  the  glory  to  God,  because  if  He  hadn't  healed  me,  I  would  not 
have  been  healed,  although  it  was  accomplished  through  Mr.  Dowie's  agency. " 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "That  healing  of  the  deafness  of  thirty-four  years  is  a  very 
interesting  matter." 

HeaUng    of  Twenty-Four  Years'    Spinal   Injury  and   Ten 
Years'  Affection  of  "Vocal  Cords. 

"I  will  ask  Mr.  Hugh  Craig,  of  Piedmont  and  of  .SI  2  California  Street,  San 
Francisco,  to  say  a  few  words  concerning  the  healing  of  his  family,  and  to  confirm 


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the  testimony  he  has  already  given  publicly.  ["First-Fruits,"  pages  50  and  51. J 
Mr.  Craig  is  the  President  of  the  newly  formed  Oakland  Branch  of  the  Ameri- 
can Divine  Healing  Association.  His  testimony  may  be  of  special  value  in  Oak- 
land, now  that  he  is  occupying  so  important  a  position  in  connection  with  this 
work." 

Mr.  Craig  stepped  up  to  the  front  from  the  body  of  the  church,  and  said:  "I 
wish  to  indorse  the  testimony  of  Mrs.  Craig  and  myself,  which  you  will  find 
stated  at  length  in  'American  First-Fruits. ' 

"We  got  acquainted  with  Mr.  Dowie  and  his  family  upon  his  first  arrival 
here,  but  we  were  very  shy  and  very  chary  about  taking  to  ourselves  the  doctrine, 
and  only  after  hearing  him  repeatedly  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  did  we 
see  the  truth  at  all  clearly.  Upon  the  first  occasion  that  I  took  Mrs.  Craig  she 
was  not  able  to  stay  at  the  meeting,  and  I  had  to  take  her  home  in  about  an 
hour.  Her  afi'ection  of  the  spine  had  been  so  bad  for  some  twenty -four  years 
that  she  could  not  sit  for  any  length  of  time.  After  a  visit  from  Mr.  Dowie  at 
our  house,  and  prayer  and  laying  on  of  hands,  Mrs.  Craig's  affection  of  the  spine 
was  perfectly  healed. 

"She  had  another  affection  of  the  vocal  cords  from  which  she  had  suffered  ten 
years.  For  this  trouble  she  had  been  under  treatment  of  Dr.  Liliencrantz,  of 
Oakland,  and  Dr.  O'Toole,  She  has  been  entirely  healed  of  this  trouble.  She 
has  been  well  of  both  these  affections  since  July  last.  Mrs.  Craig  is  here.  We 
are  well  known  to  many  people  in  Oakland  and  in  San  Francisco.  We  give  the 
glory  to  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  We  appreciate  the  visit  and  the  teachings  of  Mr. 
Dowie,  which  have  been  a  great  blessing  to  my  family. " 

A  Local  Doctor  Accepts  Divine  Healing. 

"I  have  now  the  pleasure  of  mentioning  two  sisters;  one  of  them  is  the  wife 
of  a  beloved  Christian  doctor  of  medicine  in  this  city;  and  it  is  a  great  joy  to 
me  that  Dr.  G.  S.  Smith  is  a  member  of  the  Council  of  the  Oakland  Divine  Heal- 
ing Association.  He  has  now  fully  accepted  this  doctrine  of  healing  through 
faith  in  Jesus.     I  believe  that  is  so,  doctor?" 

Dr.  Smith  replied,  "Yes,  sir." 

"I  have  had  the  joy  of  being  instrumental  in  the  healing  of  dear  Mrs.  Smith 
and  her  sister,  Mrs.  Bancroft.  Dr.  Smith  lives  at  the  corner  of  Adeline  and  Tenth 
Streets,  Oakland. 

Healing  of  the  Doctor's  "Wife. 

Mrs.  Smith  said:  "I  may  say  that  for  the  last  ten  years  I  have  never  been 
what  one  might  call  a  well  woman.  I  am  naturally  active,  and  I  have  gone 
about  when  really  I  was  not  able  to.  My  husband  knows  better  than  anyone 
else,  perhaps,  what  I  suffered.  I  suffered  a  great  deal  more  than  I  ever  said  any- 
thing about.  About  three  months  ago  I  was  very  ill,  and  I  was  five  weeks  on 
my  back,  unable  to  be  up. 

"I  have  known  Jesus  for  twenty  years  as  Saviour,  but  not  as  Healer.  It  is  a 
blessed  thing  to  know  He  is  the  Healer  of  His  people,  and  that  He  ahvays  will 
be.  I  have  never  felt  so  well  as  I  do  to-night,  and  I  expected  to  be  under  the 
doctor's  care  for  six  or  eight  months  more,  I  have  been  so  for  twelve  months 
past;  and  for  two  years  at  a  time  I  have  not  been  out  of  the  doctor's  hands,  you 
might  say,  although  I  am  a  doctor's  wife.  I  have  had  the  best  of  care  and  the 
best  of  treatment.  I  have  had  the  consultations  of  the  best  doctors  of  San 
Francisco,  and  yet  I  never  was  well.  But  now  I  do  not  expect  to  be  sick  any 
more.  I  thank  God  that  in  my  spirit,  soul,  and  body  I  feel  refreshed  and  blessed. 
I  am  very  glad  to  be  able  to  testify  to  the  help  I  have  received.  I  shall  trust 
the  Lord  to  keep  me,  and  will  trust  Him  as  my  healer  for  the  rest  of  my  life." 

Healing  of  the  Doctor's  Sister. 

Mrs.  Bancroft,  Dr.  Smith's  sister,  then  spoke  as  follows:  "The  Lord  has 
blessed  me  in  body,  and  He  blesses  me  in  soul  and  spirit.  I  have  known  the  Lord 
for  thirty-three  years  as  Saviour,  but  I  have  never  known  Hijn  before  as  my  Di- 
vine Healer.     I  have  suffered  for  three  years  from  internal  gout  of  a  very  dan- 


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gerous  character;  I  have  been  several  times  at  the  very  gates  of  death  within 
the  last  two  years  in  California.     I  believe  that  the  Lord  has  healed  me. 

"The  other  day  1  was  at  the  meeting  here  and  I  had  a  very  severe  attack  of 
this  pain ;  it  was  after  Brother  Dowie  had  laid  hands  upon  me  in  the  name  of  the 
Lord.  But  Satan,  to  try  me,  had  sent  me,  in  this  meeting,  a  very  severe  attack  of 
pain.  I  went  to  Brother  Dowie  and  told  him  about  it;  he  took  my  hand  and 
pronounced  a  benediction  in  the  name  of  the  Lord,  and  the  pain  went  away  im- 
mediately.    I  look  to  the  Lord  for  the  future  as  my  Healer.  ' 

•'I  want  to  tell  you,  also,  that  I  did  not  want  to  be  healed;  it  was  greatly 
against  my  will.  I  looked  upon  disease,  and  especially  of  my  disease,  as  a  sort 
of  means  to  get  to  Heaven  by.  I  never  wanted  to  live  long  since  I  have  been  a 
Christian;  I  never  wanted  to  be  an  old  woman;  I  never  wanted  to  see  my  dear 
ones  taken  from  me  one  after  the  other  and  I  be  left  behind.  I  looked  upon  my 
disease  as  a  sort  of  balloon  to  carry  me  to  Heaven;  and  1  was  mad  when  I  heard 
about  Brother  Dowie;  I  didn't  like  Brother  Dowie,  because  I  did  not  want  to 
think  that  he  could  be  instrumental  in  healing  me.  But  after  the  Lord  showed 
me  how  He  was  willing  to  heal  me,  and  how  I  could  be  healed,  I  thought  I  ought 
to  be  healed,  and  He  made  me  willing  to  be  healed;  and  so  He  has  healed  me. 
Now  I  am  willing  to  live  ["Thank  God"],  willing  to  live  for  Jesus;  I  hope  to  live 
for  Jesus  and  to  work  for  Jesus  with  the  strength  He  has  given  me,  and  trust  Him 
to  keep  me.  And  I  want  to  die  for  Jesus  if  it  is  necessary."  ["Thank  God," 
"Glory  to  God,"  from  the  audience.] 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "  I  may  say  that  our  sister,  Mrs.  Bancroft,  and  Dr.  Smith, 
are  the  son  and  daughter  of  that  very  eminent  man  of  God,  the  Rev.  George 
Sidney  Smith,  D.  D.,  F.  T.  C.  D.,  late  of  Dublin,  Ireland.  I  have  great  joy  to 
think  God  has  used  me  to  other  members  also  of  that  family.  I  am  so  glad  this 
work  is  going  all  over  the  world  in  so  many  ways,  and  these  testimonies  will  give 
joy  to  many  hearts  in  the  beautiful  Emerald  Isle,  a  land  which  God  will  yet  most 
richly  bless,  and  which  we  hope  to  visit,  for  many  there  are  desirous  of  hearing 
this  doctrine  from  our  lips. " 

Saved  and  Healed. 

A  lady  giving  her  name  as  Mrs.  Wallace,  Todd  St.,  Lorin,  said:  "I  have 
been  saved,  and  I  have  been  healed  of  a  severe  kidney  trouble." 

Saved,  Healed,  and  "Working  for  Jesus: 

Mrs.  Rodenbeck,  of  Alameda,  said:  "I  want  to  praise  the  Lord  for  what  He 
has  done  for  me.  I  was  a  great  sinner,  but  I  am  rejoiced  to  testify  for  Him  to- 
night. I  have  been  on  crutches;  I  had  a  lame  instep  for  thirteen  years,  so  that  I 
could  not  walk.  Praise  God,  He  has  strengthened  that  and  I  have  the  full  use  of 
my  instep.  I  am  going  to  testify  for  Him  whenever  I  can.  He  has  given  me 
strength,  and  I  am  going  to  work  for  Him.  He  has  saved  me  and  healed  me,  and 
I  have  work  to  do,  for  my  family  is  not  saved." 

Mr.  Dowie  asked:  "All  who  saw  this  sister  come  in,  and  saw  her  leave  her 
crutches  behind,  rise."     Quite  a  number  did  so. 

Two  Little  Boys  Tell  of  Their  Healing. 

ft.  little  boy  rose  on  the  platform,  and  in  a  clear  and  earnest  voice  said:  "I 
was  sick  and  the  Lord  healed  me. " 

Mr.  Dowie  asked  him  what  his  name  was,  and  he  said,  "Albert  Peterson," 
and  that  he  lived  on  Oak  Street,  Alameda. 

Another  boy  rose  and  said  the  Lord  had  healed  him.  This  was  the  son  of 
Mrs.  Pereau,  West  Berkeley. 

Restoration  of  Voice. 

J  ane  Bray,  of  787^  Stevenson  Street,  San  Francisco,  said  her  voice  had  been 
restored,  and  also  been  healed  of  another  trouble,  the  nam*  of  which  the  reporter 
did  not  catch. 

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Restoration  of  Sight  and  Hearing  to  One  Born  Blind  and  Deaf 
in  Left  Eye  and  Ear. 

Miss  Ada  Aspengren,  of  Sutter  Street,  Oakland,  then  stepped  forward,  and 
said:  "I  am  very  thankful  to  the  Lord  that  He  healed  me,  and  for  what  He  has 
done  for  me.     He  blesses  me,  spirit,  soul,  and  body. 

^'I  was  born  blind  in  my  left  eye,  and  tvas  deaf  in  my  left  ear.  I  can  see  now 
well,  and  hear  well  too.  There  is  something  else,  I  didn't  tell  Brother  Dowie 
about;  that  was  something  I  had  in  my  breast  for  about  two  years.  It  gave  me 
a  cough,  and  it  was  worse  in  the  morning.  That  is  all  gone;  the  Lord  took  it 
away.  I  ask  Him  to,  and  He  tojok  it.  I  leave  all  the  sickness  with  Him,  and 
He  is  willing  to  take  it.'' 

Those  who  knew  this  lady  were  asked  to  stand  up,  and  Mr.  Svenson,  Mr. 
"Wilson,  Annie  Burkmann,  Mr.  Sparman,  Mrs.  Smith,  Mr.  Cadman,  and  several 
others  stood  up. 

Healing  of  Nine  Years'  Spinal  Disease. 

Mrs.  Wilcox,  23G  Kearny  Street,  San  Francisco,  said  :  "  I  am  very  glad  to 
testify  to  what  the  Lord  has  done  for  me.  I  was  healed  in  the  Central  Presby- 
terian Church  in  San  Francisco.  I  had  had  spinal  disease  and  internal  diseases 
which  kept  me  very  much  of  an  invalid.  For  nine  years  I  had  worn  a  brace — a 
spinal  brace — and  could  not  go  without  it,  and  finally  I  was  enabled  to  take  it  off 
in  the  strength  of  Jesus,  and  I  have  not  put  it  on  again,  and  don't  intend  to, 
God  being  my  helper.  I  am  trusting  in  Him.  I  thank  Him.  I  have  been 
brought  very  much  nearer  to  Him  than  ever  before.  I  have  had  such  a  blessing 
spiritually,  and  He  has  done  so  much  for  us  in  our  family. " 

Healing  of  a  Daughter. 

Mrs.  Wilcox  continued,  **  I  am  living  with  my  daughter  and  she  was  not 
able  to  go  to  that  mission  in  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church,  as  we  could  not 
both  leave  home  at  the  same  time.  I  told  her  of  this  beautiful  teaching,  and  she 
took  it  to  herself,  and  before  she  attended  any  of  the  meetings  she  got  considera- 
ble of  a  blessing.  She  had  catarrh  for  a  great  many  years,  and  it  was  very  seri- 
ous, and  scrofula  showed  itself  at  times  in  different  ways.  It  was  very  serious. 
She  has  taken  the  Lord  as  her  healer,  and  she  is  improving  very  much;  she  is 
almost  entirely  healed.  The  last  week  she  had  a  swelling  in  the  upper  part  of 
her  eye-lid  on  the  inside,  and  there  was  a  bunch  as  large  as  the  end  of  your  finger. 
She  had  great  confidence  that  through  faith  and  prayer  it  would  be  taken  en- 
tirely away,  and  we  prayed  earnestly  for  it.  The  swelling  gathered  and  then 
discharged  terribly;  but  I  want  to  tell  you  that  she  has  not  had  one  bit  of  pain 
in  that  eye,  although  it  was  shut  from  the  swelling.  You  would  think  to  look  at 
it  that  it  was  a  very  painful  thing.  She  came  over  here  on  Friday  and  Mr. 
Dowie  laid  his  hands  on  it  and  prayed,  and  the  next  day  it  began  discharging,  and 
I  never  saw  anything  discharge  so.  But  it  has  been  perfectly  wonderful  that 
every  of  bit  pain  has  gone  out  of  it  and  she  has  been  able  to  sleep,  and  able  to  go 
on  with  her  work.  She  could  not  see  out  of  that  eye.  It  is  really  wonderful 
what  this  teaching  will  do  in  the  family. 

Our  Little  Children  Have  Been  Made  So  Happy  About  It. 

"If  they  get  hurt  they  just  ask  Jesus  to  take  it  away,  and  immediately  it  is 
done.  They  have  been  sick  with  fevers,  very  high  fevers,  and  they  have  been 
cured  of  colds.  We  give  all  the  glory  to  God.  I  wish  that  everybody  could  take 
Jesus  as  their  Healer.  I  am  so  sorry  that  we  cannot  convince  all  of  our  Chris- 
tian friends  that  Jesus  is  just  as  willing  to  take  all  our  diseases  as  our  sins." 

Healing  of  Many  Years'  Dyspepsia, 

Mrs.  Martenet,  of  Twenty-eighth  Street  between  Mission  and  Howard,  San 
Francisco,  said:  "  I  never  had  the  courage  to  testify  before,  I  had  nervous  dys- 
pepsia for  many  years.     I  can  say  that  I  have  been  healed  entirely.     I  have  also 


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had  a  number  of  accidents  lately  to  me,  which  I  have  been  healed  of  in- 
stantly by  prayer.  I  was  healed  in  the  Grand  Opera  House  Mission  by  laying  on 
of  hands.     I  thank  God  I  am  able  to  testify  to-night. " 

Healing    of     Rheumatisin,    Inflammation    of   Eyes,   and 

Pneumonia, 

Mrs.  Rudens,  11  Telegraph  Place,  San  Francisco,  rose  in  the  audience  and 
said:  '*  I  cannot  go  away  without  testifying  what  the  Lord  has  done  for  me.  I 
got  healed  first  in  July;  I  had  a  stiff  rheumatic  arm,  and  1  could  not  straighten 
it  out,  and  I  had  awful  pain. 

"In  the  last  two  or  three  weeks  I  had  a  very  bad  cold  and  inflammation  of  my 
eyes.  A  week  ago  I  came  over  here  and  Mr.  Dowie  laid  hands  on  me,  and  the 
same  night  the  swelling  left  my  eyes,  and  my  eyes  got  quite  well.  Last  week  I 
had  pneumonia  and  I  thought  I  would  die;  I  was  very  bad.  I  went  to  Bro. 
Holmes'  meeting  on  Market  Street,  and  they  prayed  for\ne  there,  and  there  was 
such  a  power  there;  and  when  I  went  home  the  pain  all  left  me,  and  I  have  had 
no  pain  since.     I  jDraise  the  Lord."  ^ 

Healing  of  an  African  Young  Lady. 

At  this  point  a  bright,  intelligent,  young  colored  lady  rose  in  front  of  the 
audience  and  said  she  had  been  healed  that  day,  and  that  her  name  and  address 
was  Miss  Gertie  Smith,  1013  Seventh  Street,  Oakland. 

Mr.  Dowie  said :  "I  laid  hands  apon  a  large  number  that  were  healed  to- 
day. I  do  not  call  at  these  neetings  for  the  more  recent  testimonies  as  a  rule;  I 
like  to  place  on  record  those  that  have  stood  for  a  while.  But  this  lady  has 
come  forward  of  her  own  accord,  and  I  am  very  glad  to  have  her  testify.  She  is 
one  of  over  one  hundred  and  fifty  persons  on  whom  I  laid  hands  during  this  day 
for  healing.  We  have  had  all-day  meetings,  and  have  not  left  the  building  since 
11  A.  M." 

Miss  Smith  said:  *'  I  have  been  sick  ever  since  a  child  eleven  years  of  age, 
and  I  have  doctored  a  great  deal  and  with  many  doctors,  not  only  in  this  city  but 
in  other  places.  I  have  found  no  one  to  help  me  only  Jesus,  and  I  found  Him  to- 
day. It  has  been  difficult  for  me  to  walk  for  the  past  three  or  four  days;  but 
to-day  I  came  here  and  I  found  Jesus,  and  He  healed  me  soul  and  body,  and  I 
went  home  and  buttoned  up  my  shoes,  which  I  have  not  done  for  three  days.  I 
feel  that  I  am  a  new  person.  I  have  no  pain  whatever,  and  I  have  given  my 
spirit,  soul  and  body  to  Jesus."    ["  Thanks  be  to  God,"  from  Mr.  Dowie.] 

Mr.  Dowie  said:  "She  had  internal  troubles;  it  was  a  very  severe  case.  Dr. 
Lane  has  just  informed  me  she  was  converted  with  more  than  twenty  others  at 
the  close  of  our  meeting  here  this  morning.  And  now  I  will  ask  that  brother, 
who  has  been  assisting  us  largely  in  our  Salvation  after  meetings  during  several 
months  to  say  a  few  words.  He  is  the  President  of  the  San  Francisco  Branch  of 
the  American  Divine  Healing  Association,  and  is  well  known  and  highly  esteemed 
amongst  us." 

Another  Doctor's  Testimony. 

The  Rev.  C.  T.  Lane,  M.  D.,  said:  "  I  was  just  thinking  that  the  time  will 
surely  come  by  and  by  when  the  people  of  Oakland  will  not  be  unbelievers  in 
Divine  Healing. 

**  I  scarcely  know  where  to  begin.  I  am  not  going  to  say  very  much.  You 
who  have  known  me  for  the  last  three  months,  know  that  it  is  pretty  good  testi- 
mony just  to  look  at  me.  About  three  months  ago  I  would  have  had  to  sit  at  the 
further  end  of  the  building  to  listen  to  Brother  Dowie,  for  I  could  not  bear  the 
sound  of  his  voice  if  I  was  near  him  when  preaching.  To  listen  near  a  preacher 
would  affect  my  head  and  my  heart,  and  I  would  be  very  nervous.  Now  I  have 
been  here  all  day  since  this  morning  about  1 1  o'clock  in  this  meeting  right  along, 
and  I  am  stronger  and  feel  more  vigorous  to-night  than  when  I  came  this  morning. 
I  think  that  is  pretty  good  testimony. 

"I  have  not  words,  dear  friends,  to  express  the  thankfulness  of  my  heart  to 


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God  for  what  He  has  done  for  me.  It  is  marvelous  what  the  Lord  Jesus  hath 
done,  and  what  I  have  seen  Him  do  through  the  agency  of  Brother  Dowie.  The 
lame  have  walked  that  came  in  on  their  crutches;  the  blind  have  seen,  and  all 
kinds  of  diseases  have  been  healed.  The  Name  of  Jesus  has  been  preached,  and  I 
have  realized  that  there  is  a  power  in  that  Name  which  I  never  knew  before. 
Jesus  Christ  seems  to  be  nearer  to  me  now  than  any  time  in  my  experience  since 
I  gave  my  heart  to  God  when  I  was  sixteen  years  of  age.  / 1  realize  He  is  present 
all  the  time  to  save,  to  heal  and  to  keep.     He  keeps  me  every  moment. 

*'  I  am  expecting  we  will  see  greater  work  done  in  Oakland  when  this  un- 
belief passes  away.  And  it  is  passing  away.  The  people  are  beginning  to  realize 
that  Jesus  Christ  is  the  healer  of  His  people.  I  realize  it  in  my  heart,  and  I 
thank  my  Heavenly  Father  that  I  ever  listened  to  Brother  Dowie,  and  that  the 
Lord  sent  him  to  this  Coast.  I  have  not  words  to  express  the  joy  of  my  soul, 
['*  Thank  the  Lord,"  from  Mr.  Dowie.] 

"Not  only  has  He- healed  myself,  but  my  dear  daughter.  Our  home  is  a 
house  of  rejoicing.  A  few  months  ago  it  was  a  home  of  sorrow,  and  of  pain  and 
grief,  but  now  we  rejoice  all  the  day  long,  having  Jesus  with  us  as  our  healer. " 

Saved  and  Healed  of  Paralysis  and  Concussion  of  the  Spine 
and  Brain  in  a  Remarkable  Manner  withoiit  Human 

Touch. 

A  gentleman  arose  from  his  seat  in  the  audience  and  came  to  the  platform. 
He  was  a  middle-aged  man,  and  appeared  to  be  in  excellent  physical  condition. 
He  first  gave  his  name  and  address  as  F.  W.  Wetmore,  565  Eleventh  St.,  Oak- 
land.    He  is  a  member  of  an  old  and  prominent  family  in  Oakland. 

He  said:  **  About  three  months  ago  while  in  Bakersfield  I  was  working  on  a 
scaffold,  and  it  broke  down  with  me  and  I  was  hurt.  I  had  paralysis,  and  con- 
cussion of  the  spine  and  brain — so  Dr.  Adams,  of  Oakland,  tells  me.  I  suffered 
everything.  Of  course  everybody  knows  a  person  who  has  an  injured  spine  has 
something  pretty  serious.  For  three  weeks  I  never  shut  my  eyes;  I  could  not 
sleep.  They  telegraphed  for  my  father  to  come  down  there  and  get  me.  I  was  at 
Visalia  at  the  time  when  they  telegraphed  for  him.  He  brought  me  home  and 
Dr.  Adams  came  to  the  house  to  attend  to  me.  He  cupped  me  several  time?,  but 
my  flesh  was  dead;  I  had  no  feeling  at  all;  he  would  cup  me  and  I  never  would 
feel  it;  could  not  tell  from  the  feeling  when  he  did  it.  After  that  I  began  to 
have  a  little  life,  and  to  feel  it. 

**  When  this  Mission  was  first  started  I  came  to  the  meetings  with  my  wife, 
and  it  was  about  all  I  could  do  to  get  here;  I  suffered  so  much  the  first  meeting  I 
attended  that  I  was  unable  to  hear  what  Mr.  Dowie  was  preaching.  The  next 
night  my  wife  thought  I  had  better  come  again.  I  did  so,  and  did  not  feel  so 
bad  and  was  able  to  hear  what  was  said.  I  attended  the  Mission  regularly  every 
night.  My  wife  was  taken  suddenly  sick  here  three  weeks  ago  to-night,  and 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie  went  into  another  room  with  her  and  prayed  for  her,  and 
she  was  healed  instantly,  and  I  came  right  out  and  gave  myself  to  God.  I  was 
converted  that  night.     [**  Thanks  be  to  God,"  from  Mr.  Dowie.] 

•'Two  weeks  ago  last  Thursday  night  I  began  to  lose  my  pain.  I  had  never 
been  free  from  pain,  but  from  the  night  I  was  converted  my  pains  began  to  grow 
less  and  less  all  the  time.  But  two  weeks  ago  last  Thursday  night  I  was  in  my 
room  and  we  were  ready  for  bed  and  we  were  praying,  and  I  got  right  up  and 
told  my  wife  that  I  was  cured.  I  will  tell  you  how  I  knew  I  was  cured:  I  felt 
the  pain  gradually  leave  my  body,  and  I  felt  so  light  and  so  good,  and  I  told  my 
wife  I  felt  just  as  if  I  wanted  to  go  right  through  the  house  and  shout  for  joy. 

"I  give  God  the  credit.  But  I  want  to  say  that  if  it  had  not  been  for  Mr. 
Dowie  I  never  would  have  been  cured.  There  are  a  number  of  people  who  think 
these  things  are  done  by  human  magnetism.  I  will  state  that  Mr.  Dowie  never 
laid  his  hands  upon  me,  except  to  shake  hands.  I  asked  him  to  pray  for  me  in 
the  open  meetings,  and  he  did  so.  TTie  day  before  I  was  healed  I  could  not  lift 
twenty-five  pounds  off  the  lloor,  but  now  I  think  I  could  stand  a  pretty  good 
tussle  with  any  of  you.  I  could  not  lift  my  foot  upon  a  chair  like  that  [easily 
placing  his  foot  upon  the  seat  of  a  chair]  without  taking  hold  of  it  and  lifting  it 


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Tip.  I  am  now  strong  and  hearty.  Last  Saturday  I  worked  half  a  aay,  and  all 
day  to-day.  I  went  ont  to  Temescal  and  laid  the  foundation  for  a  little  cottage 
there.  While  the  laborer  was  getting  ready,  I  just  took  his  hod  and  filled  it  up 
with  bricks  a  number  of  times  and  carried  it  around  and  dumped  it  where  I  was 
going  to  work.     I  think  that  will  prove  that  my  back  is  all  right. " 

Mr.  Dowie:  "Thank  God.  That  is  a  good  testimony  with  which  to  close 
onr  long  series  of  Missions  during  the  past  eight  months.  "We  lay  it  and  all  the 
others,  with  adoring  love  and  gratitude,  at  Jesus'  feet,  saying,  'Thine,  0  Lord,  is 
theKingdom,  and  the  Power,  and  the  Glory,  forever,  Amen  ! '  Let  us  sing  with 
all  our  hearts  thegrand  Doxology  to  our  Triune  God." 

The  audience  then  sang  with  great  fervor: — 

"Praise  God  from  whom  all  blessings  flow 
Traise  Him  all  creatures  here  below, 
Praise  Him  above  ye  Heavenly  Host, 
Praise  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghost." 

Mr.  Dowie  then  offered  the  following: 

Prayer. 

"Father  in  Heaven,  we  thank  Thee  for  the  mercies  of  this  beautiful  day;  for 
Thy  condescension  and  love  in  using  our  words,  in  using  our  hands,  and  also  in 
showing  that  Thou  dost  heal  without  any  human  touch. 

"And  now  for  many  dear  ones  who  have  been  healed  we  pray,  and  for  the 
multitude  that  know  Thee  not  as  their  Healer.  We  pray  also  for  those  who  have 
been  blessed  and  are  being  perfected.  May  Thy  Mighty,  Holy  Spirit  bring  them 
out  perfectly,  and  may  they  more  and  more  be  filled  with  Thy  love.  May  they 
manifest  Thy  glory  aJad  live  for  Thee. 

'  'May  these  testimonies,  which  we  humbly  lay  before  Thee  now  in  the  name  of 
Jesus,  all  glorify  Thee.  We  have  no  glory  in  this  matter,  excepting  to  glory  in 
the  Lord. 

"And  now  dismiss  us  with  Thy  blessing,  and  use  us  in  the  way  that  Thou 
seest  best.  Lead  us  right  on  in  this  work,  and  establish  it  trhough  the  wide 
world,  for  Jesus'  sake. 

Benediction. 

"And  now,  beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil;  and  the  very  God  of 
peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly.  And  I  pray  God  your  whole  spirit  and  soul 
and  body  be  preser^^ed  entire  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our  Lord  -lesus 
Christ.  Faithful  isile  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it.  The  grace  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  love  of  God,  and  the  fellowship  of  the  Holy  Spirit  abide  in 
you,  bless  vou,  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere  forever.     Amen." 


TALKS  WITH  MINISTERS  ON  DIVINE  HEALING. 


TWO  ADDRESSES,  DELIVERED  BY  THE  REV.  JOHN  ALEXANDER  DOWIE,  AND 
MRS.  DOWIE,  B  INVITATION  OF  THE  CONGREGATIONAL  CLUB,  AT 
THEIR  MEETING,  HELD  IN  THE  PARLORS  OF  THE  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  SAN 
FRANCISCO,  MONDAY,  DECEMBER  17,  1888. 

[reported    by   G.    H.    HAWES,    320   SANSOME   STREET.] 

The  parlors  were  crowded  with  an  attentive  and  earnest  audience,  principally 
consisting  of  ministers  and  officers  of  Congregrtional  Churches  in  and  around  San 
Francisco.  The  Rev.  J.  A.  Cruzan  presided,  and  after  preliminary  business  had 
been  disposed  of  he  introduced  theRev.  J.  A.  Dowie  and  Mrs.  Dowie. 

Mr.  Dowie  spoke  as  follows: — 

"Beloved  Friends:  I  am  glad  of  this  opportunity  to  speak  to  you.  If  I 
were  to  place  before  you  the  text  most  in  my  mind,  it  would  be  the  words  con- 
tained in  the  eighth  chapter  of  Matthew,  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  verses: 
'  When  the  even  was  come,  they  brought  unto  Him  many  that  were  possessed 
with  devils;  and  He  cast  out  the  spirits  with  His  word,  and  healed  all  that  were 
sick;  that  it  might  be  fulfilled  which  was  spoken  by  Esaias  the  prophet,  saying, 
Himself  took  our  infirmities,  and  bare  our  sicknesses." 

y^   DIVINE  healing  not  "mind  healing"  nor  "christian  science." 

"  I  am  glad  this  subject  has  been  placed  before  you  in  the  two  words,  'Di- 
vine Healing.'  I  have  nothing  in  common  with  what  is  called  Mind  Healing, 
nor  that  *  opposition  of  science  falsely  so  called, '  called  Christian  Science,  and 
I  do  not  like  the  term,  Faith  Healing.  '  We  are  saved  by  grace  through  faith  and 
not  of  ourselves  ;  it  is  the  gift  of  God!  We  are  kept  by  thn  power  of  God  through 
faith.'  While  faith  is  a  very  precious  grace,  yet  it  is  only  the  medium  of  the 
communication  of  God's  infinite  love  and  power,  and  we  must  never  put  it  in  the 
place  of  God  Himself.  Therefore  I  am  glad  the  subject  is  expressed  in  the  words 
Divine  Healing,  or  '  Healing  through  Faith  in  Jesus;'  not  healing  BY  faith,  but 
THROUGH  faith;  through  faith  in  Jesus,  by  the  power  of  God.  As  this  doc- 
trine is  presented  by  us  in  our  teaching  it  covers  a  large  field;  and  however  di- 
versely it  may  be  put,  and  however  variously  it  may  be  illustrated,  it,  after  all, 
comes  to  two  points. 

TWO  cardinal  doctrines. 

^^  First — That/ Jesus,  the  Christ,  is  the  same  yesterday,  to-day  and  forev^cr,' 
and  being  so,  He  is  unchanged  in  power  and  in  will.  If  His  words,  '  Lo,  I  a-n 
with  you  alway,  even  unto  the  end  of  the  world;'  are  true,  and  they  are,  then  He 
is  as  much  present  in  power  and  in  spirit  to-day  as  when  He  stood  in  the  flesh 
upon  the  earth.  This  being  so,  we  have  ever  presented  in  our  teaching  that  He 
is  able,  that  He  is  willing,  that  He  is  present,  and  that  He  is  longing  to  heal  His 
people  as  in  the  days  of  His  flesh. 

^'Second — That  Disease,  like  Sin,  is  God's  enemy,  and  the  devil's  work,  and  can 
never  be  God's  will.  Peter  said  in  the  household  of  the  Centurion  Cornelius,  Acts 
10:38:  '  God  anointed  Jesus  Christ  with  the  Holy  Ghost  and  with  power;  who  went 
about  doing  good  and  healing  all  that  were  oppressed  of  the  devil,  for  God 
was  with  Him.     Nineteen  centuries  ago  'all  manner  of  sickness  and  disease'  was 


^WriVERSITY 

healed  by  Jesus,  and  as  'all' whom  He  healed  '  were  oppressed  of  the  devil,'  it 
follows  logically  that  all  sickness  and  disease  is  still  the  devil's  work.  When 
Jesus  heals  He  is  not  undoing  the  work  of  the  Father,  but  the  work  of  Satan. 
The  will  of  God  is  to  heal  now,  as  it  was  nineteen  centuries  ago,  all  who  believe. 
Now  in  teaching  these  two  points 

CHRIST    IS    THE    HBALER,    SATAN    IS    THE    DEFILER, 

We  are  accustomed  at  some  considerable  length  to  put  them  before  the  eyes  and 
the  minds  of  the  people  as  efiFectively  as  we  can.  We  do  this  with  the  aid  of 
diagrams.     Here  is  one  which  we  call  *  The  Two  Chains. ' 

GOOD  EVIL 


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Jesus 

Salvation 

Healing    () 

Life        Q 

Heaven     (_) 


Satan 

0 

Sin 

1 

Disease 
Death 

2 

Hell 

d) 

'*  The  Chain  of  Good  begins  with  Jesus — from  all  eternity  the  eternal  Logus, 
who  was  God,  and  in  the  beginning  with  God;  the  '  Lamb  of  God  slain  from  be- 
fore the  foundation  of  the  world'.  Then  follow  what  He  hath  given  to  His  people, 
Salvation,  Health,  Life,  Heaven. 

"Then  the  Chain  of  Evil  is  Satan,  Sin,  Disease,  Death,  Hell.  Jesus  and 
Satan  are  opposed;  salvation  and  sin  opposed;  health  and  disease  opposed;  life 
and  death  opposed;  heaven  and  hell  opposed.  The  point  is,  Has  Christ  delivered 
us  from  '  all  the  power'  of  the  enemy?  We  teach  that  He  has,  and,  therefore, 
that  salvation  extends  to  the  body,  and  that  His  '  saving  health'  is  a  Gospel  of 
Salvation  and  Healing  which  must  be  proclaimed  '  among  all  nations.'  Therefore 
we  teach 

'the  redemption  of  the  body;' 

(Romans  8  :  23)  and  that  the  *  Life  also  of  Jesus  should  be  made  manifest  in  our 
mortal  Jlesh.'  2  Cor.  4:11.  We  make  the  bold  assertion  of  the  Apostle  Paul, 
namely,  *  If  the  Spirit  of  Him  that  raised  up  Jesus  from  the  dead  dwell  in  you, 
He  that  raised  up  Christ  from  the  dead  shall  also  quic  ?en  your  mortal  bodies 
by  His  Spirit  that  dwelleth  in  you.'  Romans  8: 11.  This  '  redemption  of  the 
body'  was  never  taught  by  Jesus  as  something  belonging  to  the  hereafter. 
He  taught  that  this  was  to  be  the  continuous  work  of  the »  Holy  Spirit 
in  all  the  ages.  How  plain  are  His  words,  *  He  that  believeth  on  me,  as 
the  Scripture  hath  said,  out  of  his  belly  shall  flow  Rivers  of  Living  Water.'  The 
Rivers  were  to  flow  from  the  Bodies  of  Believers,  and  they  did.  The  Bodies 
were  to  be  Fountains  of  Divine  Life;  for  it  is  written,  'This  spake  He  of  the  Holy 
Spirit  which  they  that  believe  on  Him  should  receive ;  for  the  Holy  Ghost  was 
not  yet  given,  because  that  Jesus  was  n^t  yet  glorified.'  See  John  7:37-39, 
But  the  Holy  Ghost  having  been  given,  the  Body  becomes  the  Temple  of  the 
Holy  Ghost  and  the  Temple  of  God  is  to  be  clean.  So  that  redemption  extends 
not  only  to  the  spirit  Ttrevjua,  and  the  soul  if.wxV  ^"^  ^°  *^^®  body,  (joajaa'^ 
Christ's  redeeming  wor'ic  extends  to  the  entire  being,  spirit,  soul  and  body. 
Therefore,  Divine  Healing,  the  restoration  by  the  Holy  Spirit,  through  faith  in 
Jesus,  so  long  as  we  'abide  in  Him,'  is  provided  for  us  through  all  our  earthly  pil- 
grimage. When  our  pilgrimage  ends,  though  we  may  be  old  and  worn,  we  shall 
'lie  down  in  peace  and  sleep,'  and  neither  Satan,  nor  sin,  nor  disease,  nor  death, 
nor  hell,  shall  have  any  dominion  over  us,  if  we  let  Christ  set  us  free. 
"Now  in  presenting  these  truths  it  seems  to  us  that  we  are 


STANDING  UPON  THE  ROCK  OF  ETERNAL  POWER. 

We  have  no  teacliing  outside  of  the  word  of  God  in  this  matter.  We  do  not 
present  our  theories.  This  ministry  is  continonsly  the  ministry  of  the  Word  orf 
Lite.  We  hold  fast  to  Jesus'  words:  'It  is  the  Spirit  that  quickeneth,  the  flesh 
proflteth  nothing.  The  words  that  I  speak  unto  you,  they  are  spirit  and  they  are 
life.'  We  believe  that  'Fools,  because  of  their  transgression,  and  because  of 
their  iniquities,  are  afflicted,'  not  because  God  afflicts  them  with  foul  disease. 
There  ara  many  such  to-day  whose  '  soul  abhorreth  all  manner  of  meat;  and  they 
draw  near  unto  the  gates  of  death.'  But  we  also  believe,  as  God's  word  teaches 
us,  that  when  '  they  cry  unto  the  Lord  in  their  trouble,  He  saveth  them  out  of 
their  distresses. '  We  do  not  believe  that  He  does  this  by  pills  and  potions  and 
plasters,  but  'He  sendeth  [Revised  Version]  His  word,  and  heai.eth  them,  and 
delivereth  them  from  their  destructions  [or  pits].'  See  Psalms  107:17-20. 
These  are  four  wonderful  verses. 
"And  so  the  whole  Mission  is 

FIRST    OP    ALL   A    TEACHING    MISSION; 

and  the  whole  ministry,  as  we  are  enabled  to  present  it,  is  based  entirely  upon 
the  word  of  God.  We  therefore  present  that  word  as  fully  as  we  can,  always 
remembering  that  this  was  the  way  in  which  Christ  carried  out  His  great  earthly 
Mission.  He  did  three  things:  He  taught.  He  preached.  He  healed.  Matthew  4: 
28  and  Matthew  9:35  have  exactly  the  same  phraseology:  'Jesus  went  about  all 
the  cities  and  villages,  Teaching  in  their  synagogues,  and  Preaching  the  gospel 
of  the  kingdom,  and  Healing  every  sickness  and  every  disease  among  the  people. ' 
Teaching  came  first,  Preaching  next,  and  Healing  last.  That  is  the  divine  order 
in  which  it  was  ever  put,  and  the  Kingdom  of  God  can  only  be  extended  by  that 
ThieefoLl  Ministry.  Alas,  that  preaching  should  be  considered  the  beginning 
and  end  of  the  Christian  ministry  in  these  days!  A  true  minister  should  not  only 
be  ii  divinely  ordained  preacher,  but  a  divine  teacher  and  healer,  as  in  the  church 
of  the  first  century. 

"We  have  found  in  connection  with  this,  that  as  the  beautiful  Gospel  of 
Divine  Healing  is  placed  after  Salvation,  we  have 

A    BLESSED    OPPORTUNITY    OF    PRESSING    CHRIST's    SALVATION 

upon  the  people  who  come  to  listen.  We  tell  them  that  they  must  not  attempt 
to  •  touch  the  hem  of  His  garment, '  and  that  they  cannot  get  into  contact  with 
Him  at  all  for  physical  healing  until  they  have  spiritually  owned  Him  as  their 
Lord  and  their  God.  We  remind  our  readers  that  it  is  written,  'Bless  the  Lord, 
O  my  soul ,  and  forget  not  all  His  benefits,  who/orgiveth  all  thine  iniquities,  who 
healeth  all  thy  diseases.'     Psalm  103  : 2  and  3. 

''Forgiveness  first,  and  Healing  second.  Jesus  put  it  in  the  same  manner: 
'Son,  be  of  good  cheer,  thy  sins  are  forgiven  thee,'  preceded,  'Arise,  take  up  thy 
bed  and  go  unto  thine  house.'  Matthew  9:1-7.  The  leper  must  first  be  a  true 
worshiper  at  Jesus'  feet,  ere  he  can  find  in  Him  a  merciful  healer.  Matthew  8:2- 
4.  So  wa  have  taught  that  God  requires  saving  faith  on  the  part  of  those  who 
oome  to  seek  Him  for  healing.  There  must  first  be  a  surrender  of  the  spirit,  and 
a  reception  of  Christ  as  the  Saviour  from  sin,  and  that  is  the  sine  qua  non;  a  c  >ndi- 
tioii  without  which  we  cannot  ask  the  Lord  acceptably  for  healing.  We  have 
iiothing  whatever  ta  do  with  those  who  will  not  first  receive  Christ  as  their 
S  •'  iour.  Divine  Healing  is  the  Children's  Bread,  and  it  cannot  be  given  to  those 
wlio  are  willfully  Children  of  the  Devil,  for  these  cannot  exercise  faith.  We  find 
in  connection  with  this  teaching  that  this  is  a  very  strong  position.  We  show 
them  the  Beautiful  Gate  of  Divine  Healing;  but  we  point  them  to  Jesus,  who  has 
said,  *I  AM  THE  Door  of  the  Sheep.'  John  10:7.  No  goat  can  enter,  much  less 
any  devouring  wolf.  Before  they  can  reach  the  inner  door  of  Healing,  they  must 
piss  through  the  outer  door  of  Salvation.  They  must  receive  Christ  the  Saviour 
ere  they  can  partake  of  His  blessing  as  Healer.     We  repeat  it  over  and  over  again, 


DIVINE    HEALING    IS    THE    CHILDREN  S  BREAD 

and  it  cannot  be  given  to  dogs.  The  Canaanitish  woman  must  get  beyond  the 
recognition  of  Jesus  as  the  son  of  David.  She  must  see  in  Him  the  God  of 
Israel.  When  she  xvorships  Him,  and  throws  herself  at  his  feet,  with  the  cry, 
'Lord,  help  me  ! '  then  He  can  say,  'O  woman,  great  is  thy  faith;  be  it  unto  thee 
even  as  thou  wilt.'  Matthew  15:21-28.  The  Unitarians'  creed,  which  denies 
Christ's  power  and  Godhead,  can  never  lead  men  to  Salvation  or  to  Healing. 
We  teach  that,  in  all  the  healings  recorded  in  Scripture,  where  faith  is  not  ex- 
pressed it  is  always  implied.  Spiritual  perception  must  come  first;  for  ^without 
faith  it  is  ivipossible  to  please  God:  for  he  that  cometh  to  God  must  believe  that  He 
is,  and  that  He  is  a  rewarder  of  them  that  diligently  seek  Him.'  Hebrews  11:6. 
How  can  one  exercise  a  spiritual  power,  such  as  faith  is,  unless  that  person  found 
that  faith  in  Him  who  is  its  Author  ? 

"Presenting  that,  we  find  too  that  Divine  Healing  points  to 

A    STILL    MORE    BEAUTIFUL    THING,— HOLINESS    OF    LIFE. 

The  thirty-fifth  chapter  of  Isaiah  presents  first  Salvation  in  Christ:  *He  will  come 
and  save  you.'  Healing  comes  next:  'Then  the  eyes  of  the  blind  shall  be 
opened,  and  the  ears  of  the  deaf  shall  be  unstopped;  than  shall  the  lame  man 
leap  as  an  hart,  and  the  tongue  of  the  dumb  sing;  for  in  the  wilderness  shall 
waters  break  out,  and  streams  in  the  desert.  And  the  parched  ground  shall  be- 
come a  pool,  and  the  thirsty  land  springs  of  water,'  etc.  Then  Holiness  follows: 
for  the  beautiful  Redemption  song  continues;  'And  an  Highway  shall  be  there, 
and  a  way,  and  it  shall  be  called 

THE    WAY    OF    HOLINESS  J 

tlie  unclean  shall  not  pass  over  it,  but  it  shall  be  for  those:  the  wayfaring  men, 
though  fools,  shall  not  err  therein.'  How  blessed  are  those  who  walk  therein: 
for  this  then  there  is  , 

THE     WAY    OF    LIFE; 

the  time  of  the  singing  of  birds  ha»  comer  'And  the  ransomed  of  the  Lord  shall 
return  and  come  to  Zion  with  songs'  (not  with  meanings),  'and  everlasting  joy  upon 
their  heads:  they  shall  obtain  joy  and  gladness,  and  sorrow  and  sighing  shall  flee 
away. ' 

"  We  do  not  strain  the  prophecy  by  applying  it  thus,  for  our  Lord  Himself 
applied  it  so  in  His  answer  to  John  the  Baptist  (Matthew  11:4  and  5),  and  it  is  a 
glorious  presentation  of  the  good  time  when  the  whole  being  of  the  redeemed  is 
perfected  in  Christ;  and  there  is  no  perfection  out  of  him. 

"A  great  deal  more  might  be  said  about  this;  but  let  me  emphasize,  that  un- 
less these  points  are  first  understood  there  is  no  progress;  the  way  must  be  clear. 
By  faith,  the  sinner  must  see  Jesus  as  the  Saviour.  Perceptive  Faith  must  be 
followed  by  J?eceptive  Faith;  for  it  is  written,  '  As  many  as  received  Him,  to  them 
gave  He  power  to  become  the  sons  of  God'  (John  1  :  12).  And  receptive  faith 
must  be  followed  by  a  Retentive  Faith,  a  faith  that  holds  fast  to  Christ.  That 
is  followed  by  Active  Faith;  a  true  Christian  must  work  for  Christ.  Active 
Faith  must  be  followed  by  Passive  Faith,  the  highest,  and  yet  the  lowliest  form — 
a  strong  Christian  calmly  rests  in  the  Lord.  It  is  not  in  our  seeing,  our  re- 
ceiving, our  holding  fast,  or  our  working,  that  Power  lies;  Power  comes  to  him  who 
is  fully  resting  in  the  Lord.  From  that  center  all  the  rest  proceed.  Having 
taught  these  things  you  will  see  what  the  effect  is;  the  eflfect  is  that  we  call  upon 
the  Church  of  God  to  live  a  higher  life.  We  inquire  at  once,  and  firmly,  from 
Christians  who  seek  healing, 

ARE  YOU  DEFILING  YOUR  BODY  ? 

If  yoii  deHl?  the  body  by  any  nicotine  poison,  by  the  filthy  vice  of  smoking  or 
chewing  tobacco,  then  you  sin  against  God  and  your  own  soul.    You  sow  nicotine 


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and  reap  cancer;  you  sow  nicotine  and  you  reap  paralysis;  you  sow  poison  in  the 
tiesh,  and  you  reap  corruption.  That  is  in  exact  accordance  with  the  law  of  Sin 
and  Death.  For  disease  is  the  offspring  of  Father  Satan  and  Mother  Sin,  just  as 
much  as  Death.  Let  the  words  ring  out  in  the  ears  of  the  Church  of  God — '  Be 
not  deceived;  God  is  not  mocked;  for  whatsoever  a  man  soweth  that  [exactly  that 
same  thing,  not  something  else]  shall  lie  also  reap;  for  he  that  soweth  to  his  flesh 
shall  of  the  flesh  reap  corruption;  but  he  that  soweth  to  the  Spirit  shall  of  the 
Spirit  reap  life  everlasting.'  (Galatians  6  :  7,  8.)  I  talk  plainly  in  this  ministry, 
and  affirm  that  the  defilement  willfully  by  a  Christian  of  his  body  is  sin,  just  as 
stealing  or  lying  is  sin;  for  it  is  written,  *  Know  ye  not  that  ye  are  the  temple  of 
God,  and  that  the  Spirit  of  God  dwelleth  in  you  ?  If  ami  man  [be  he  minister, 
officer  or  church  member]  defile  the  Temple  of  God,  him  shall  God  destroy;  for 
the  Temple  of  God  is  holy,  which  Temple  are  ye?  '  (1  Cor.  3  :  16,  17.)  No 
one  can  mistake  God's  word  in  this  matter  who  has  aji  honest  mind.  The  human 
body  of  the  belierer  is  God's  temple.  It  is  written,  *  What  ?  Know  ye  not  that 
your  Body  is  the  Temple  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  which  is  in  you,  which  ye  have  of 
God,  and  ye  are  riot  your  otmi  ? '  We  are  the  Lord's  purchased  j)ossession,  and 
when  He  bought  us,  He  did  not  only  buy  our  Spirits,  but  He  paid  the  price  for  the 
redemption  of  our  souls  and  bodies  too.  Hence  the  apostle  says,  *  Ye  are  bought 
with  a  price  [and,  oh,  what  a  price  Jesus  paid  I  ]  therefore,  glorify  God  in  your 
body,  and  in  your  spirit,  ^vhich  are  God\'i.'  (See  1  Corinthians  6  :  19,  20.)  To  dis- 
grace God  by  defiling  His  temple  is  clearly  to  sin.  •  To  pollute  the  body  with 
alcohol  is  sin,  for  it  defiles  and  poisons  the  brain  and  all  the  body,  and  opens  the 
door  of  God's  Temple  to  many  unclean  devils.  And  so  with  every  form  of  defile- 
ment. Novel  readers  are,  for  the  most  part,  *  filthy  dreamers  who  defile  the 
flesh  '  (Jude  8);  and  the  pernicious  poison  of  fictitious  literaturs  of  every  kind  ex- 
cites the  sensual  desires  of  multitudes  who  pollute  themselves  continually.  '  Ab- 
stain from  all  appearance  [or  every  form]  of  Evil '  (1  Thess.  5  :  22),  is  the  absolute 
command  of  God,  and  every  Christian  must,  by  God's  grace,  obey  it  fully. 
Therefore,  we  have 

MOTIVE  POWER  IK  TEACHING  THIS  DOCTRINE, 

which  comes  with  great  force  to  those  who  are  sick,  causing  them  to  quit  sin. 
They  have  to  give  up  all  secret  as  well  as  open  sins.  Excesses,  also,  in  the  con- 
jugal  relation,  excesses  in  the  exercise  of  any  lawful  power  that  God  has  given, 
must  be  abstai'jed  from.  There  must  be  a  holding  in  subjection  of  the  whole  be- 
ing. The  body  must  be  made  the  servant,  and  nerer  once  the  master.  [Amens.] 
Thus  many  are  led  to  give  up  sin  under  the  power  of  the  teaching  of  the  word  of 
God  in  this  ministry  of  Divine  Healing,  who  otherwise  would  not  do  so. 

"  But,  beloved  friends,  the  Teaching  comes  first,  as  we  have  said — the  elim- 
ination of  truth  from  error.  The  minds  of  the  people  must  first  be  delivered  from 
the  terrible  thought  that  God  can  ever  be  the  defiler  of  His  people,  and  the  glo- 
rious revelation  must  be  made  clear  and  plain  that  the  hand  of  Christ  is  ever  the 
hand  of  the  Healer. 

WE  HAVE  TO  MEET  AND  ANSWER  OBJECTIONS, 

of  course,  and  Old  Testament  difficulties  are  brought  to  bear  especially  upon  this 
matter.  We  are  confronted  with  the  words  of  Job,  which  a  good  many  people 
forget  are  not  the  words  of  God.  The  Book  of  Job  is  an  inspired  record  of 
events  in  which  God  and  Satan  and  men  took  part.  The  words  of  Job  are  not 
always  the  message  of  God.  When  Job  said,  'Have  pity  upon  me,  have  pity  upon 
me,  O  ye  my  fridnds,  for  the  hand  of  God  hath  touched  me '  (Job  19 :21),  it  wns 
not  an  inspired  word,  for  the  voice  of  God,  reproving  Job,  rang  out  from  the 
whirlwind,  'Who  is  this  that  darkeneth  counsel  by  word  without  kno  wedge?' 
(Job  38:2).  And  Job  had  to  confess  that  he  had  spoken  things  that  hi  ought 
not  to  have  spoken;  uttered  things  he  ought  not  to  have  uttered,  that  he  had 
used  words  without  divine  wisdom;  that  he  had  sinned.  He  said,  '  Behold,  I  am 
vile;  what  shall  I  answer  thee?  I  will  lay  my  hand  upon  my  mouth  '  (Jjob  40: 4). 
Again  he  said,  *I  have  uttered  that  I  understood  not;  things  too  wonder- 
ful for   me,    which    I    knew   not;       .        .         .       wherefore    I    abhor    myself. 


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and  reperit  in  dmt  and  ashes*  (Job  42:1-4).  It  was  then  that  the  hand  of 
the  Healer  was  manifested;  for  God  healed  Job,  and  delivered  •  him  also  fiom  the 
false  accusations  of  his  three  friends  who  did  not  see  that  this  was  not  the  hand 
of  God.  They  thought  it  was  the  hand  of  God,  and  Job  was  in  the  same  position. 
But  God  revealed  that  drama  which  we  see  now,  which  Job  did  not  see  at  the 
time  and  did  not  understand  (and  sometimes  we  do  not),  that  while  he  permits 
the  existence  of  sin  and  suffering,  and  other  forms  of  evil,  he  never  can  be  the 
author  of  evil.  Therefore  when  Job  said,  *  What  ?  shall  we  receive  good  at  the 
hand  of  God,  and  shall  we  not  receive  evil?'  Job  was  not  sinning  with  his  lips 
willfully,  but  he  was  sinning  in  his  mind  ignorantly,  and  he  was  speaking  that 
which  was  not  right.  It  is  written,  *  Let  no  man  say  when  he  is  tempted,  /  am 
tempted  of  God,  for  God  cannot  be  tempted  with  evil,  neither  terapteth  he  any 
man.'  See  James  1:  13-16.  Stealing  is  evil,  disease  is  evil;  and  when  Job  said, 
'  The  Lord  gave  and  the  Lord  hath  taken  away;  blessed  be  the  name  of  the 
Lord,'  Job  was  wrong.  He  did  not  sin  willfully,  nor  charge  God  foolishly  inten- 
tionally; but  God  proved  to  him  that  he  had  charged  him  wrongfully.  Let  us 
have  the  whole  truth;  the  Lord  gave,  it  is  true;  but  it  is  equally  positive  that 
Satan  took  away;  and  poor  Job  ignorantly  blessed  God  for  what  he  afterward  saw 
was  Satan's  work.  You  surely  do  not  make  God  the  author  of  the  stealing  of 
Job's  sheep  and  camels  and  oxen  and  asses?  You  surely  do  not  make  God  the 
author  of  the  sin  of  Job's  children,  who  in  their  sinful  gluttony,  drunkenness, 
and  impenitence  were  in  Satan's  power  and  perished.  The  family  was  a  sinful 
one,  so  sinful  that  Job  daily  offered  sacrifice  for  them;  ^For  Job  said,  It  may  be 
that  my  sons  have  sinned,  and  cursed  [the  Revised  Version  reads  renounced]  God 
in  their  hearts.  Thus  did  Job  continually.'  See  Job  1 :4  and  5.  They  were  a 
continuous  sorrow  to  him,  and  had  a  foolish  mother.  He  knew  they  were  evil; 
they  perished  in  their  sin;  for  they  despised  their  godly  father.  We  say.  then, 
what  God's  word  says,  that  it  was  the  hand  of  Satan  that  *  smote  Job  with  sore 
boils  from  the  sole  of  his  foot  unto  his  crown.'  Job  2:7.  It  was  not  the  hand 
of  the  Lord;  and  we  should  discern  that  while  there  is  the  divine  permission, 
there  is  not  the  commission. 

PERMISSION  AND  COMMISSION  ARE  POLES  ASUNDER, 

and  must  never  be  confounded.  I  would  like  to  say  a  word  just  here,  namely, 
that  a  great  deal  of  error  arises  from  confounding  thesa  two  things.  God  per- 
mitted the  Jews  to  blaspheme  his  own  Son;  permitted  Judas  Iscariot  to  betray 
him;  permitted  Satan  to  ente  •  his  heart  and  make  him  a  thief,  a  betrayer,  and  a 
liar.  But  for  anyone  to  say  God  committed  these  crimes  would  be  to  make  God 
the  author  of  perjury,  of  stealing,  of  brutality  and  blasphemy.  Christ  submitted; 
God,  the  eternal  Father,  permitted;  but  it  was  the  temporary  triumph  of  the  Evil 
One;  for  Jesus  himself  said  at  that  awful  time  to  those  servants  of  Satan  who 
arrested  him  at  Gethsemane,  'This  is  your  hour,  and  the  power  of  darkness.' 
Luke  22:  53.  He  never  once  said  it  was  the  hand  of  God.  There  is  a  graet  deal 
of  error  in  our  hymnology.     For  instance,  a  well-known  hymn  says: — 

"  '  Jehovah  lifted  up  His  rod, 
O  Christ,  it  fell  on  thee; 
Thou  wast  sore  stricken  of  God, 
There's  not  one  stroke  for  me.' 

That  is  based  upon  a  misinterpretation  of  the  Scriptures,  A  person  once  said  to 
me  that  it  was  written  in  the  word,  'He  was  stricken  of  God  and  afflicted.'  I 
sakl,  'That  is  not  true.'  He  said,  'That  is  what  it  says.'  I  said,  'It  does  not, 
and  if  you  look  at  the  word,  you  have  seriously  misquoted.  In  Isa.  53:4  it  is 
written,  'Surely  He  hath  borne  our  griefs  [in  the  Revised  Version  instead  of 
griefs  the  margin  reads  sicknes-'^es]  and  carried  our  sorrows,  yet  we  did  esteem 
HIM  STRICKEN,  Smitten  of  God  and  afflicted.'  We  Jews,  we,  the  people  of  God, 
said,  'Now,  there  you  are  on  the  cross;  didn't  we  tell  you  that  you  were  a  blas- 
phemer, and  would  come  to  a  bati  end  ? '  And  they  reviled  Him,  derided  Him, 
mocked  Him,  and  wagged  their  head  -  and  said,  'You  are  stricken  of  God,  and 
afflicted  of  God,  you  are  a  bad  man.'  Oh,  it  is  a  bitter  shame  that  the  Church  of 
God  should  take  this  false  accusation  as  a  truth,  and  fashion  it  into  a  hymn.     It 


is  not  true.  He  was  wounded  for  our  transgressions,  He  was  bruised  for  our  in- 
iquities;' but  let  us  never  forget  what  Peter  said  on  the  day  of  Pentecost  to  those 
who  put  him  to  death,  *  Him,  being  delivered  by  the  determinate  counsel  and  fore- 
knowledge of  God,  ye  have  taken,  and  By  wicked  hands  have  crucified  and  slain.' 
Acts  2: 23.  The  hands  which  committed  that  crime  were  'wicked  hands f'  doing 
the  devil's  bidding.  Christ  with  the  Father  agreed  in  the  Divine  Counsel,  ana 
with  clear  foreknowledge,  to  let  Satan  triumph  for  that  bitter,  awful  hour;  but 
it  was  that  He  might  thereby  provide  for  us  salvation  and  healing,  and  every 
blessing  we  need,  by  that  precious,  atoning  Sacrifice.  The  glorious  words,  there- 
fore, follow,  Isa.  53:  5,  'The  chastisement  of  our  peace  was  upon  Him,  and  with 
His  stripes  wb  are  healed.  ' 

"  You  may  say  that  further  on  the  prophecy  says,  verse  10,  *  Yet  it  pleased 
the  Lord  to  bruise  Him.'  I  read  these  words,  *to  permit  Him  to  be  bruised v' 
and  for  many  good  and  suflBcient  reasons  I  cannot  enter  into  the  matter  now  and 
here,  but  we  have  entered  into  it  very  largely  in  our  teaching.  There  has  been 
a  good  deal  of  difiference  of  opinion  amongst  eminent  scholars  upon  this  subject. 
I  hold  that  all  through  the  Old  Testament  there  is  a  mistranslation  of  the  per- 
missive into  the  causative.  If  what  Peter  says,  namely,  that  He  was  crucified 
*by  the  hands  of  wicked  men,'  be  true,  then  his  crucifixion  could  not  be  the 
Father's  action  in  any  sense,  although  it  was  his  permission.  But  the  awful 
guilt  of  that  diabolical  crime  rests  upon  the  Jews,  for  ili  was  their  sinful  action, 
and  Satan's  work,  of  whom  they  were  the  blind  slaves,  through  the  *  envy '  of 
their  deceitful  rulers. 

*'  And  so,  throughout  the  whole  of  the  Old  Testament,  I  venture  to  say  you 
can  only  rightly  understand  many  passages  by  altering  the  causative  into  the 
permissive.  For  instance,  'Shall  there  be  evil  in  the  city  aiid  the  Lord  hath 
not  done  it  ? '  Amos  3  :  6.  Will  any  of  you  say  that  God  creates,  is  the  doer  of, 
every  iniquity  in  San  Francisco?  Again,  *  I  make  peace,  and  create  evil.'  Isa. 
45  : 7.  Ii  God  creates  evil,  then  where  is  our  responsibility,  should  we  fall  into 
sin  ?  Again,  *  The  Lord  hath  put  a  lying  spirit  in  the  mouth  of  the  prophets. ' 
1  Kings  22  :  23.  Does  God  put  a  lying  spirit  in  the  mouth  of  the  prophet  ?  Then 
he  would  be  a  father  of  lies,  like  the  devil;  and  I  want  to  see  where  the  respon 
sibility  is,  if  we  are  led  astray  by  a  false  revelation.  Change  the  verb  from 
causing  to  permitting,  and  the  difficulties  in  these  and  hundreds  of  passages  in 
the  Old  Testament  vanish  in  a  moment,  and  God  justified  from  one  of  the  foulest 
charges  brought  by  infidelity,  namely,  that  He  is  the  author  of  innumerable 
crimes.  He  permits  the  existence  of  evil,  but  permission  is  not  commission.  On 
the  contrary,  does  He  not  say,  Isa.  5  :20,  *  Woe  unto  them  that  call  evil  good, 
and  good  evil,  that  put  darkness  for  light,  and  light  for  darkness,  that  put  bitter 
for  s weet>  and  sweet  for  bitter  ? '  The  New  Testament  is  abundantly  clear  upon 
the  na<rtter,  and  I  think  that  we,  as  ministers  of  the  New  Testament,  ought  to 
interpret  the  Old  by  the  New,  and  not  the  New  by  the  Old.  I  lay  it  down  as  a 
caaon  of  interpretation  that  when  we  are  listening  to  the  Christ  we  should  say, 
*  A  greater  than  Solomon  is  here. '  And  we  are  not  going  to  Isaiah  or  Moses  or 
David  in  preference  to  Chri-^.  When  he  says,  *  I  say  unto  you,' it  settles  the 
question.  He  says,  *  A  good  tree  cannot  bring  forth  evil  fruit,  neither  can  a 
corrupt  tree  bring  forth  good  fruit.'  Matt.  8:17.  God  is  not  a  tree  of  good 
and  evil.  God  is  good,  infinitely  holy  and  infinitely  pure,  and  nothing  corrupt 
ceKi  ever  come  to  us  through  His  hands.  Disease  is  evil,  the  product  of  Satan 
and  sin,  hence  it  can  never  come  from  God. 

"So  these  are  some  of  the  points  of  the  teaching. 

AS  TO   THE   PRACTICE, 

we  do  not  care  that  [indicating  by  gesture]  in  itself,  about  laying  hands  upon 
people  or  about  anointing  people.  I  should  be  very  glad  if  everyone  was  healed 
as  the  Lord  has  graciously  healed  and  kept  me.  For  twenty-silc  years  I  have 
been  delivered  by  Him  alone  in  every  time  of  trial,  and  kept  in  health  and 
strength  and  in  power  of  spirit,  soul  and  body.  I  have  been  lecturing  in  your 
country  continuously  for  six  months,  and  before  I  left  Australia  had  been  for 
»any  years  working  up  to  my  utmost  strength.     I  have  been  speaking,  I  sup- 


8 

pose,  on  an  average  about  three  times  a  day  for  more  than  one  hundred  and 
eighty  odd  days,  and  I  do  not  feel  any  weakness.  I  have  Written  much,  con- 
ducting a  vast  correspondence,  and  haid  interviews  with  hundreds  of  persons. 
I  had  all  the  work  of  yesterday,  and  I  did  not  take  Saturday  to  rest,  but  was  at 
work  from  an  early  hour  of  that  day  until  11  o'clock  at  night,  preparing  my  mail 
for  Australia.  I  seldom  know  what  it  is  to  absolutely  rest,  except  in  sleep  and 
in  a  change  of  employment.  I  find  rest  and  joy  in  contianous  service.  So  I 
speak,  and  so  it  is,  all  of  the  grace  of  God. 

"  We  do  not  teach  that  it  is  essential  in  Divine  Healing  to  anoint  with  oil,  or 
that  there  shall  be  laying  on  of  hands.  We  say  that  all  a  true  believer  needs  to 
do  is  to  pray  as  the  Centurion  did,  '  Lord,  »peak  the  word  only,  and  Thy  servant 
shall  be  healed.'  Matt.  8  :8.  But  then  you  must  have  faith  it  shall  be  done, 
not  merely  that  it  can  be  done.  We  have  been  largely  used  by  the  laying  of 
hands  in  tSiis  ministry;  but  we  believe  in  the  ministry  of  anointing  by  the  elders, 
as  set  forth  .in  J  as.  5  :  14,  15:  'Is  any  sick  among  you  ?  let  him  call  for  the  elders 
of  the  church,  and  let  them  pray  over  him,  anointing  him  with  oil  in  the  name 
of  the  Lord;  and  the  prayer  of  faith  shall  save  the  sick,  and  the  Lord  shall  raise 
him  up;  and  if  he  have  committed  sins,  they  shall  be  forgiven  him. '  Look  at 
the  three  shalls  in  that  last  verse.  It  is  not  perhaps,  may,  or  can,  but  God  says 
sJiall.  Christ  says,  *Ask,  and  it  shall  be  given  you;  seek  and  ye  shall  tind; 
knock  and  it  shall  be  opened  unto  you.'  Luke  11:9.  He  does  not  say  these 
signs  may  follow  them  that  believe,  but  He  says  clearly,  'These  signs  shall  follow 
them  that  believe:  in  My  Name  .  .  .  they  shall  lay  hands  on  the  sick  and 
they  sfiall  recover.'    Mark  16:17,  18. 

"While  we  do  "not  consider  it  essential  in  all  cases  to  lay  hands  on  the  sick, 
yet  we  glorify  God  that  He  has  used  us  in  that  wonderful  ministry.  In  your 
city  the  blind  have  received  their  sight,  the  deaf  have  heard,  the  lame  have 
walked,  and  their  testimony  is  there  [referring  to  *  American  First- Fruits '],  and 
many  have  been  blessed.     But 

SUPPOSING    THERE    WAS    NO    HEALING    IN    THIS    CITY, 

it  would  not  alter  the  fact  that  Christ  is  the  Healer.  Now,  I  ask  you  as  min- 
isters, suppose  there  was  not  one  man  saved  in  the  city,  would  it  not  alter  the 
fact  that  Christ  is  the  Saviour?  No;  it  would  simply  show  there  was  no  faith 
in  San  Francisco.  That  Christ  is  the  Healer  does  not  rest  upon  any  human  tes- 
timony, it  rests  upon  the  word  of  God,  and  not  the  testimony  of  man.  We  have 
not  based  it  upon  the  testimony  of  men,  and  we  shall  never  do  so,  God  helping 
us.  You  do  not  base  your  belief  that  Jesus  is  the  Saviour  from  sin  upon  the  fact 
that  somebody  is  saved,  or  says  he  is  saved;  but  you  base  it  upon  the  word  of 
the  living  God;  and  there  you  stand.  And  there  we  stand,  upon  the  Rock — 
resting  on  the  God  of  Eternal  Truth,  whose  Word  we  have. 
*'  So  this  teaching  is  not  new. 

IF    IT    WERE    NEW,     IT    WOULD    NOT    BE    TRUE, 

and  what  is  true  is  not  new.  We  want  to  get  back  to  the  old  church  lines,  as 
laid  down  in  the  New  Testament,  to  primitive  lines;  and  if  we  are  to  get  back 
primitive  power,  beloved,  we  will  have  to  go  a  step  further  and  get  back  primi- 
tive organization,  primitive  faith,  primitive  simplicity,  primitive  purity  of  life. 
Primitive  power  follows  all  that. 

"Well,  beloved  friends,  I  am  very  thankful  for  the  opportunity  of  talking  to 
you.     I  think  I  have  taken  up  more  than  my  time." 

(The  Chairman  announced  that  "seven  minutes  remained.") 

A  member  of  the  Club  said  they  "would  like  to  hear  from  the  good  lady," 
referring  to  Mrs.  Dowie. 

Mr.  Dowie  continued:  "  I  thank  you  for  your  courtesy  to  Mrs.  Dowie. 
Doubtless  she  will  say  a  few  words. 

"  It  is  also  remarkable  how  my  dear  wife  has  been  kept  in  connection  with 
the  whole  of  this  ministry.  I  suppose  it  would  almost  savor  of  egotism  if  I  spoke 
at  length  of  what  we  have  undertaken  in  this  work  for  the  Lord,  and  I  will  not. 
I  don't  want  myself  to  be  put  in  the  front  at  all  in  this  matter,  yet  to  the  glory 


of  God  let  us  say  that  during  these  last  six  years  we  have  seen  thousands  and 
thousands  of  persons  individually,  and  talked  to  hundreds  of  thousands,  and 
through  our  pen  to  millions,  and  all  in  the  strength  which  God  supplies.  We 
have  had  wondrous  blessing.  *  The  Lord  hath  done  great  things  for  us,  whereof 
we  are  glad.'  Mrs.  Dowie  has  worked  with  me  continuously  through  all  the 
toil  of  long  journeys  by  land  and  by  sea,  followed  by  meetings  lasting  frequently 
all  the  day  from  ten  o'clock  in  the  morning  until  very  late  at  night,  and  some- 
times till  far  on  in'the  following  morning.  So  it  has  gone  on  from  year  to  year, 
and  we  have  had  *  fresh  oil '  every  day,  new  power  has  continually  been  given. 
I  have  never  known  for  a  single  day  what  it  has  been  to  be  unable  to  minister  to 
my  Lord  in  all  these  long  years.  And  in  this  I  greatly  rejoice  ;  for  we  live  to  do 
the  will  of  God . 

**  I  desire  to  say  that  I  esteem  it  a  privilege  to  talk  to  Congregational  minis- 
ters; I  was  one  of  you;  I  am  one  of  you  in  many  things  still.  I  was  ordained 
nearly  seventeen  years  ago  as  the»pastor  of  a  Congregational  Church.  I  was  bom 
of  the  spirit  in  my  native  city,  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  when  I  was  a  child  seven 
years  old,  and  was  brought  up  in  an  Independent  Church,  as  we  used  to  call  it. 
My  father  is  a  Congretionalist  now,  and  most  of  my  relatives  are  connected  with 
Congregational  Churches."     A  minister  inquired, 

"is  that  what  you  mean   by  primitive  church  organization?" 

**  No,  sir,  I  do  not  think  so  by  any  manner  of  means.  My  views  upon  that 
/subject  have  been  expressed  in  a  recent  lecture,  entitled,  *  A  Fact  and  a  Ques- 
tion.' The  Fact  to  which  I  refer  is  found  in  1  Corinthians  12  :  28,  *  And  God  hath 
set  (^eSero — hatk  huilt  into^  some  in  the  Church,  first  Apostles,  secondarily, 
Prophets,  thirdly  Teachers,  after  that,  Miracles,  then  Gifts  of  Healings,  Helps, 
Governments,  Diversities  of  Tongues.'  That  is  the  fact  according  to  the  Holy 
Scriptures.  The  question  is,  '  Where  are  They?  '  and  upon  the  right  answer  to 
that  Question  depends  the  whole  truth  as  to  the  rightful  organization  of  the 
Church  of  God. 

**  There  is  one  more  word  I  would  like  to  add.  I  may  say,  brethren,  I  found 
it  to  be  a  very  great  blessing  to  myself  to  be  able  to  keep  very  clearly  in  my  own 
mind  the  primitive  distinction  between  Spirit  and  Soul.  I  feel  convinced  that 
much  error  has  crept  into  the  Church,  among  which  is  the  miserable  doctrine  of 
annihilation,  in  consequence  of  confounding  the  words  Soul  and  Spirit.  We  have 
a  lecture  upon  that  subject,  *  The  Sanctifi cation  of  Spirit,  Soul  and  Body,'  which 
we  illustrate  by  a  diagram.  That  diagram  is  not  here ;  but  perhaps  you  will  be 
able  to  understand  what  it  is  after  I  hav«  represented  it  to  you  •  We  present  in 
this  diagram  four  circles;  the  innermost  to  represent  the  indwelling  of  the  holy 
spirit;  the  next  circle  is  the  spirit  {nvsv^a);  the  next  the  Soul  {ipVX?f)f 
and  the  outside  circle  the  Body  (^Goofxa) .  The  triparte  nature  is  not  often  preached, 
and  man  is  too  often  represented  as  a  duality  instead  of  a  trinity,  made  '  in  the  image 
of  God.'  We  teach  the  doctrine  largely  from  1  Thess.  5  :  23,  24.  The  Holy  Spirit 
is  the  sanctitier  of  spirit,  soul  and  body.  The  difference  between  spirit  and  soul 
is  essentially  distinct,  and  is  so  shown  in  the  Scriptures.  The  first  chapter  of 
Genesis  shows  that  beasts  have  souls;  and  the  same  word  is  used  concerning 
Adam's  soul.  But  that  expression  has  no  reference  to  the  spirit.  Genesis  2 :  7 
shows  that  man  was  constituted  by  God  a  triparte  being — the  Body  of  dust,  the 
Spirit  is  the  Breath  of  God's  Life,  and  the  Living  Soul  is  identical  with  that  of 
the  animals,  birds,  fishes  in  Genesis  1  :  20  and  30,  where  the  same  word  is  used  for 
their  life.  All  our  light  on  this  matter  must  come  from  God's  Word,  which 
clearly  points  to  a  separation  of  Soul  from  Spirit.  See  Hebrews  4: 12,  'The 
Word  of  God  .  .  .  piercing  even  to  the  dividing  asunder  of  Soul  and  Spirit. ' 
The  soul  can  die,  the  spirit  never.  Christ  'poured  out  his  soul  unto  death,' 
(Isaiah  53  :  12);  but  that  was  only  His  blood,  not  His  Spirit,  which  could  not  die. 
The  blood  is  the  life.  He  poured  it  out  (it  was  His  soul)  unto  death.  And  so  all 
the  way  through  we  have  this  distinction  of  Soul  and  Spirit  in  the  testimony  of 
God.  It  leads  to  many  practical  thoughts,  and  has  a  far-reaching  importance 
not  at  first  perceived — we  have  found  it  so  in  our  ministry. 


10 

"  As  illustrating  the  rapidly  growing  interest  in  this  ministry  of  Divine  Heal- 
ing, I  may  say  that  I  have 

RECEIVED    FROM   FIVE    TO     SIX    THOUSAND    PETITIONS  FOR    PRAYER 

from  all  parts  of  your  country,  and  also  from  many  parts  of  the  world  during 
these  six  months.  It  is  wonderful  how  God  has  guided  the  minds  of  the  people 
to  us  from  many  lands,  and  the  answers  to  prayer  that  have  been  given  for  many 
at  great  distances.  It  is  needless  that  I  should  give  instances  of  Divine  Healing, 
for  hundreds  have  publicly  testified  in  our  meetings  in  this  State,  and  in  this  city. 
Many  hundreds  have  also  professed  to  find  salvation  in  our  meetings,  and  this  is 
our  highest  joy.  The  Healings  are  going  on  all  the  time,  and  I  glorify  God  for 
what  he  is  doing.  There  is  nothing  done  through  my  agency  but  what  may  be 
done  through  any  of  you. 

I    CLAIM    NO    EXCLUSIVE    PRIVILEGES    OR    POWERS. 

"  We  teach  what  is  recorded  in  the  12th  chapter  of  First  Corinthians,  that 
*  the  gifts  of  healings*"  are  in  the  Holy  Spirit,  like  all  the  other  gifts  of  God.  They 
are  not  under  the  control  of  a  body  called  the  Church,  they  are  not  controlled  by 
any  person,  call  him  by  what  office  or  title  you  may;  they  are  in  the  Holy  Spirit; 
an«l,  if  the  Holy  Spirit  be  in  you.  He  will  divide  to  you  severally  as  He  wills. 
All  THE  GIFTS  are  m  the  Holy  Spirit,  and,  therefore,  in  the  Church.  The  nine 
gifts  of  the  Spirit  mentioned  in  that  chapter  are  a  permanent  possession  of  the 
Church,  namely,  the  Word  of  Wisdom,  the  Word  of  Knowledge,  Faith,  Gifts  of 
Healings,  Working  of  Miracles,  Prophecy,  Discerning  of  Spirits,  Tongues,  and  In- 
terpretation of  Tongues.  *  All  these  worketh  that  one  and  the  self-same  Spirit, 
div  ding  to  every  man  severally  as  he  will.'  The  gifts  are  permanent,  for  it  is 
written  (Romans  11 :  29),  '  For  the  gifts  and  calling  of  God  are  without  repext- 
AXCE.'  They  are  not  changed  by  the  unbelief  of  men.  Christ  has  bestowed  the 
gifts,  and  they  are  a  permanent  possession.  The  Church  is  His  Bride,  and  the 
bridegroom  has  endowed  her  with  the  gifts.  He  has  not  taken  them  away,  and 
He  does  not  mean  to.  Long  have  they  lain  in  the  Treasury  of  His  Grace  unused. 
May  they  be  from  henceforth  fully  exercised  to  bless  humanity,  and  glorify  God. 
May  He  grant  a  blessing  on  the  word,  and  hasten  the  time  when  the  Church  m  ill 
everywhere  declare  His  *  saving  health  amonc^all  nations.'    Amen." 

The  Club  cordially  invited  Mrs.  Dowie  to  say  a  few  words  to  them, 
which  she  did  as  follows: — 

"  My  Christian  friends,  I  can  simply  confirm  what  Mr.  Dowie  has  already 
told  you  about  his  doctrinal  teaching;  he  has  gone  pretty  well  over  the  ground,  in 
as  short  a  space  as  he  could  get  it  into,  and  he  has  not  missed  many  of  the  points. 
But  tliere  is  just  one  passage  I  might  mention  which  is  often  brought  up  by 
Christians,  and  that  is  the  much  misunderstood  passage, 

*  WHOM  THE   LORD  LOVETH  HE  CHASTENETH."' 

That  passage  is  taken  right  out  of  its  connection,  and  many  people  do  not  know 
anything  at  all  about  its  surroundings,  and  take  it  that  the  chastening  means 
sickness,  and,  therefore,  when  they  are  sick  they  say  the  Lord  is  chastening  them, 
and  they  cannot  pray  in  faith  to  have  it  taken  away.  Our  explanation  is  this:  In 
the  twelfth  chapter  of  Hebrews  it  says:  *  Wherefore  seeing  we  also  are  compassed 
about  with  so  great  a  cloud  of  witnesses,  let  us  lay  aside  every  weight,  and  the 
sin  which  doth  so  easily  beset  us,  and  let  us  run  with  patience  the  race  that  is  set 
before  us,'  and  so  on.  There  the  parallel  is  drawn  between  Christ  and  the  Chris 
tian.  Now  our  Lord  Jesus  never  suffered  from  disease.  We  are  to  have  the 
same  sufferings  as  He  suffered;  we  are  to  suffer  just  as  He  suffered;  the  parallel 
there  is  complete.  If  Jesus  Chnso  had  suffered  from  disease  He  could  not  have 
been  the  Messiah,  because  He  had  to  be  the  spotless  Lamb  of  God.  Therefore, 
we  can  clearly  see  that  it  could  not  have  been  disease  with  which  He  was  chas- 
tened, feu  t  the  proof  that  this  passage  does  not  refer  to  disease  as  God's  chasten- 
ing is  that  the  section  closes  with  the  words  in  the  twelfth  and  thirteenth  verses: 
'  Wherefore  lift  tip  the  hands  which  hang  down,  and  the  feeble  knees;  and  make 
straight  paths  for  your  feet,  lest  that  which  is  lame  be  turned  out  of  the  way: 


11 

but  LET  IT  BATHER  BE  HEALED. '  Therefore  Healing  is  God's  purpose  for  us  in 
running  our  race,and  it  cannot  be  a  chastisement  of  disease  that  we  recieve  from 
the  Lord. 

"  And,  again,  the  parallel  is  also  drawn  between  a  child  and  his  parents. 
When  we  chastise  our  children  we  would  not  give  them  disease.  Our  Lord 
asked  (Luke  11  :  11,  12),  '  If  a  son  shall  ask  bread  of  any  of  you  that  is  a  father, 
will  he  give  him  a  stone  ?  or  if  he  ask  a  fish,  will  he  for  a  fish  give  him  a  serpent  ?' 
No  father  would  do  this,  and  no  father  would  chasten  his  child  with  disease  more 
cruel  than  sei  pents  or  scorpions.  *  Like  as  a  father  pitieth  his  children,  so  the 
Lord  pitieth  them  that  fear  him. '  We  cannot  imagine  a  loving  father  chastising 
his  children  with  deadly  and  painful  disease. 

"  In  regard  to  the  practical  working  of  this  teaching,  many  Christians  who 
come  to  our  meetings  tell  us  that  when  they  receive  this  doctrine  it  brings  them 
in  touch  with  Jesus  as  if  He  stood  before  them.  They  now  speak  to  Jesus  as 
simply  as  a  little  child  can  speak  to  his  earthly  father;  they  feel  Jesus  is  with 
them  all  the  time,  and  they  can  bring  all  their  little  wants  to  Him  and  He  sym- 
pathizes with  them. 

' '  We  teach  that 

HE  IS  PRESENT  WITH  US  ALWAYS, 

and  not  an  absent  Lord.  And  so  many  thousands  who  have  been  suffering  from 
every  description  of  disease  have  been  healed  of  the  Lord.  We  have  seen  people 
come  into  our  meetings  bent  with  pain  and  scarcely  able  to  drag  themselves  along; 
poor,  suffering  women  who  sometimes  tell  us  they  have  not  had  a  day's  ease  from 
pain  for  twenty  or  even  thirty  years,  and  in  a  moment  they  have  seen  the  teach- 
ing, they  understand  it  is  not  the  Lord's  will  that  they  should  suffer,  and  they 
just  go  to  Him  in  simple  faith  and  ask  for  healing,  and  they  have  gone  away 
healed  and  well. 

"We  have  preached  this  now  for  more  than  six  years.  People  have  come  to 
us  afflicted  with  almost  every  description  of  disease  that  you  can  mention.  We 
have  had  many  of  those  who  have  been  healed  with  us  day  after  day  for  six  years 
in  Australia,  and  we  and  hundreds  of  witnesses  can  testify  that  they  have  beea 
perfectly  healed;  and  the  Lord  has  kept  them;  for  he  is  not  only  our  Saviour, 
and  our  Healer,  but  our  Keeper." 

The  Chairman  announced  that  fifteen  minutes  remained  for  questions.  The 
Rev.  Dr.  Pond  inquired:  "I  have  been  greatly  interested — greatly  interested, 
and  I  would  like  to  ask  Brother  Dowie,  not  in  the  spirit  of  disputation  at  all,  but 
to  hear  what  he  has  to  say  about  it,  in  reference  to  certain  cases  of  sickness  met 
with  in  the  New  Testament,  mentioned  just  as  we  should  mention  them,  as  being 
the  visitation  of  God's  providence;  take  the  case  of  Epaphroditus  and  others — I 
presume  they  are  all  familiar  to  him." 

Ansive7' — "In  the  case  of  Epaphroditus,  nothing  is  said  by  Paul  as  to  his 
sickness  being  God's  providence.  But  his  healing  is  joyfully  recorded  (Phil.  2 :  27) : 
'Indeed,  he  was  sick  nigh  unto  death,  but  God  had  mercy  on  him;  and  not  on  him 
only,  but  on  me  also,  that  I  should  not  have  sorrow  upon  sorrow.'  Epaphroditus 
seems  to  me  a  good  case  of  Divine  Healing.  As  to  the  case  of  Trophemus,  Paul 
simply  says,  *I  left  him  at  Miletum  sick'  (2  Tim.  4  :  19).  It  does  not  say  why  he 
was  left  sick.  He  might  not  have  been  faithiul;  for  at  this  time  many  of  Paul's 
companions  were  failing  him.  Indeed,  he  says,  only  five  verses  before  this,  *At 
my  first  answer,  no  man  stood  with  me;  for  all  men  forsook  me.'  Of  course 
Paul  had  many  companions  who  were  not  faithful;  Phygellus,  Hermogenes, 
Demas,  and  others  are  named  among  those  who  forsook  him.  It  does  not  follow 
that  all  of  Paul's  companions  were  capable  of  healing — just  as  some  of  you  here 
might  be  incapable  of  receiving  Divine  Healing  because  of  unbelief. " 

After  many  other  questions  by  various  ministers  had  been  answered,  the  time 
having  been  extended  for  an  additional  fifteen  minutes,  the  Club  heartily  gave  a 
vote  of  thanks  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dowie  for  accepting  their  invitation  to  address 
them,  and  for  presenting  the  subject  of  Divine  Healing  to  them 


"Christ  Is  All." 


American  Divine  Healing  Association, 

PRESIDENT,  REV.  JOHN  ALEX.  DOWIE. 

Weekly  meetings  of  the  following  Branches  of  this  Association  (open  to  all)  are  held 
follows  : — 


THE  SAN  FRANCISCO  BRANCH, 

Rev.  C.  F.  Lane,  M.  D.,  President;    Miss  I  aura  F.  Stcne,  807  Leavenworth  Street,  San 
Francisco,  Secretary;    Mr.  Geo.  M.  Wood,  211  Sutter  Street,  San  Francisco,  Treasurer. 

MEETS   IN  THE  CENTRAL   PRESBYTERIAN  CHURGH, 

Corner  Golden  Gate  Avenue  and  Polk  Streets,  every  Monday  evening  at  7:  30. 


THE  OAKLAND  BRANCH, 

Mr.  Hugh  Craig,  312  California  Street,  San  Francisco,  President;  Mrs.  Crawford, 
Athertou  Street,  Berkeley,  Secretary;  Mr.  Arthur  L.  Thompson,  Orange  Street,  Vermont 
Heights,  Oakland,  Treasurer. 

MEETS  IN   THE   SWEDISH  LUTHERAN  CHURCH, 

Ninth  Street,  between  Washington  and  Clay,  every  Tuesday  evening  at  7:  30. 


THE  SAN  JOSE  BRANCH, 

Mr.  Geo.  Harter,  336  North  Second  Street,  San  Jose.  President;  Mrs.  M.  E.  H.  Baird, 
58  South  Third  Street,  San  Jose,  Secretary;  Mr.  Chas.  F.  Bopp,  P.  O.  Box  1144,  San  Jose, 
Treasurer. 

MEETS   IN   THE   FIRST  METHODIST   EPISCOPAL   CHURCH, 

Every  Monday  evening  at  7: 30. 


THE  BORDEN  BRANCH, 

FRESNO   COUNTY,   CAL. 

Mr.  Geo.   Crowder,    President;    Mrs.   Julia  Dowda,  Secretary;    Mr.  Geo.  W    Dowda, 
Treasurer. 

MEETS  AT  THE   RESIDENCE  OF  MR.   G.   W.   DOWDA, 

Every  Monday  Evening  at  7:  30. 


OTHER  BRANCHES 


At  Los  Angeles,  Fresno,  and  Sacramento,  Cal.;  Portland,  Or.;  Tacoma  and  Seattle, 
Wash.;  and  Victoria,  B.  C,  are  expected  to  be  formed  during  the  year,  and  possibly 
in  other  places.  Details  of  all  Branch  Meetings,  and  all  information  concerning  the 
Association,  can  be  obtained  from  the  pages  of  "  Leaves  of  Healing,"  a  monthly  maga- 
zine for  ihe  promotion  of  this  work,  published  at  the  Office  of  "  Leaves  of  Healing," 
320  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco,  and  any  other  information  required  will  be  gladly 
given  by  the  President,  REV.  J.  A.  DOWIE,  on  application,  at  the  same  address. 


THE  FOLLOWINa   PUBLICATIONS 

CAN   BE   HAD   AT  THE  OFFICE   OF 

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RECORD 

OF  THE 

FIFTH  ANNUAL  COMMEMORATION 

of  the   Rev.  John  Alexander  Dowie  and  Mrs.   Dowie's  ministry  of 

HEALING  THROUaH  FAITH  IN  JESUS, 

Held  in.  the  Free  Christian  Tabernacl  •,  Fitzroj',  Melbourne  on  I^ord's 
Day,  Dec  4th,  and  Moniay,  Dec.  5th,  1887,  Contai  .ing  Testimonies  from 
those  healed  and  Kbenezer  Addresses. 

MFlvBOURNF  : 

M.  L.  Hutchinson,  15  C01.1.1NS  Street  West. 

iSS-. 
39  pages  Svo.   Price  10  cts.  per  copy,  or  20  copies  for  Si. 25,  postage  included. 


Divine  Healing  Vindicated. 

A  Reply  by  the 

HEY.  JOHN  ALEX.  DOWIE, 

TO  AN  ATTACK  BY  THE 

EEY;  dr.  CHAPMAH  and  the  OAKLAID  PASTORS'  UKIOI. 

Delivered  in  the  First  Baptist  Church,  Oakland,  California,  on  Lord's  Day 
afternoon,  Jan.  27th,  1SS9. 

Reported  by  GEO.  H.  HAWES,  320  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. 

PUBLISHED   BY   THE   AUTHOR, 
SAN  FRANCISCO, 

1889. 
28  pages  Svo.     Price  locts.  per  copy,  or  20  copies  for  $1.25,  postage  included. 

AMERICAN  FIRST-FRUITS. 

(New  and  Enlarged  Edition.)    Being  a  Record  of  S  months' 

DIVINE  Ruum  msmn, 

In  the  State  of  California,  Conducted  by  the  Rev.    JOHN  ALEX    DOWIE 

and  MRS.  DOWIE.    With  an  appendix  containing      ' 

TWO  ADDRESSES  ON  DIVINE  HEAI.ING, 

Deliv-ered  before  the  Congregational  Ministers'  Club  of  San  Francisco 

Published  at  the  office  of    'LEAVES  OF  HEALING  " 

320  .SANSOME  ST.,  SAN  FRANCISCO 

144  pages  Svo.      Price  15  cts    per  copy,  10  copies  for  5-1 .25,  postage  included. 


LEAVES  OF  HEALING, 

A  monthly  International  Magazine  for  the  Promotion  of  the  Kingdom  of 

God.     Edited  by    he  R  v.  JOHxN  ALEX.  DOWIE 

Published  at  the  office  of  ■'  LEAVES  OF  HEALING  " 

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